FOSSology  4.4.0
Open Source License Compliance by Open Source Software
Unified report agent

Table of Contents

About Unified report agent

Unified report agent generates a .docx. The document follows following pattern.

  • Clearing information (department, report date, etc.)
  • Component information (version, hash, main license, fossology link, etc.)
  1. Assessment Summary Contains information like source notes, dependency notes, ECC, etc.
  2. Required license compliance tasks
    1. Common obligations, restrictions and risks
    2. Additional obligations, restrictions & risks beyond common rules
  3. Acknowledgements Every acknowledgement entered by the user during clearing.
  4. Export Restrictions Contains findings of ECC.
  5. Notes

    1. Notes on individual files

      Comments added during clearing

  6. Results of License Scan

    Count of agent findings, concluded license and corresponding license name.

  7. Main Licenses

    List of License name, license text and file path for every global/main license marked during clearing.

  8. Other OSS Licenses (Red)

    Licenses which should be avoided (risk level 4-5)

  9. Other OSS Licenses (Yellow)

    Licenses with limited rules (risk level 2-3)

  10. Other OSS Licenses (White)

    Common licenses (risk level 0-1)

  11. Overview of all licenses

    List of licenses found with obligation

  12. Copyrights

    List of copyright statements, comments and file path.

  13. Bulk findings

    Monk bulk findings

  14. Non Functional Licenses

    Licenses which are not applicable on binary.

  15. Irrelevant Files

    Files marked as irrelevant during clearing

    1. Comment for irrelevant files

  16. Clearing Protocol Change Log

    Organization specific.

Along with all this information, every page contains the header set using Report Header Text under Configuration Variables. And the footer contains organization name, report generation timestamp, FOSSology version used and page number.

Supported actions

Currently, unified report agent does not support CLI commands and read only from scheduler.

Agent source