Contributors per cycle
Accepted projects each year, against the median organization that year
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| FOSSology | Median organization | |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 0 | 4 |
| 2017 | 0 | 4 |
| 2018 | 1 | 3 |
| 2019 | 3 | 4 |
| 2020 | 3 | 4 |
| 2021 | 7 | 4 |
| 2022 | 6 | 3 |
| 2023 | 5 | 4 |
| 2024 | 7 | 4 |
| 2025 | 10 | 5 |
| 2026 | 7 | 4 |
In GSoC 2026
FOSSology
FOSSology is an open source license compliance software system and toolkit. As a toolkit you can run license, copyright and export control scans from the command line. As a system, a database and web UI are provided to give you a compliance workflow. License, copyright and export scanners are tools used in the workflow.
Contributors in 2026
7
−3 from 2025
Projects since 2016
49
5.4 a cycle on average
Cycles
9 of 11
9-cycle streak
Rank in 2026
#40
of 183, 0.6% of slots
Mentors
11
for 10 projects in 2025
Stack and topics
Each one has its own page of organizations and trends
Technologies
# Topics
Quick answers
- Is FOSSology in GSoC 2026?
- Yes, with 7 contributors.
- How long has it taken part?
- 9 of 11 cycles since 2016, first in 2018, with a 9-cycle streak running.
- How many contributors does it usually take?
- 5.4 a cycle on average, 49 in total. Its largest cycle was 2025, with 10.
- What does it build with?
- Linux, PostgreSQL, C, C++, PHP, Lamp and 8 more.
Accepted projects
7 projects in 2026 · All 49 projects since 2016
Enhanced Reuse Agent for Intelligent License Reuse
Ayushmaan Sharma
Many Fossology users struggle to reuse old license decisions because they have to find the right files themselves. This project makes the Reuser...
FOSSology & LicenseDb UX and UI design
Devanshi Sachan
This project aims to redesign the remaining FOSSology pages and LicenseDb to further modernize the interface and improve overall usability. The...
Report Aggregation for Compliance
Harshit Gandhi
Managing compliance today means juggling dozens of independent reports - SPDX, CycloneDX, CLIXML, ReadmeOSS - generated separately for each...
Improve CycloneDX Support and Update CycloneDX Exports to Spec Version 1.7
Krrish Biswas
FOSSology's CycloneDX agent targets spec 1.4 and omits license texts, copyright notices, and scanner evidence. This project upgrades it to 1.7, adds...
Enhancing Nirjas & Atarashi for Accurate, Scalable License Intelligence
rycerzes
This project will enhance FOSSology's license intelligence stack by revamping both Nirjas and Atarashi into a faster, ML-driven, and language-aware...
Enhanced Reuse Agent for Intelligent License Reuse
Saksham Mishra
The current reuse workflow in FOSSology provides a powerful mechanism to copy license clearing decisions from a previously analyzed upload to a newer...
Completion of FOSSology UI Rewrite using Next.js
Tiyasa Kundu
This project aims to complete and productionize the FOSSology UI by finalizing the ongoing migration to Next.js and ensuring full integration with...
Enhancing Debian Packaging for FOSSology
Ahmed-GamalMentored by Gaurav Mishra, Kaushlendra, its-sushant
This project aims to improve the Debian packaging process for FOSSology, an open-source license compliance tool. Currently, FOSSology relies on CPack...
Data Pipeline For Safaa
AnukMentored by HastagAB, its-sushant
Currently in Safaa Project data was manually curated And we see that most of the things are manual here. This project will concentrate on creating a...
LicenseDB Platform Improvements
Chayan_DasMentored by Sahil Jha, its-sushant
The goal of this project is to enhance the LicenseDB platform by integrating several important features including advanced database migrations,...
FOSSology UX and UI Redesign
Devanshi SachanMentored by Shaheem Azmal M MD, Katharina Ettinger
This project aims to redesign the FOSSology interface with a user-centered design approach that enhances usability and accessibility. The redesign...
Support text phrases and bulk based scanning for MONK a like agent
Harshit GandhiMentored by Shaheem Azmal M MD, Soham Banerjee
Standard license scanning tools often overlook custom or organization-specific texts, leaving critical gaps in compliance. This project enhances...
Complete microservices infrastructure for FOSSology
M.SalmanMentored by Gaurav Mishra, Avinal Kumar
This project aims to complete the microservices infrastructure for FOSSology by continuing the work from GSoC 2021, with a goal to fully deploy...
Integrating OSS Review Toolkit with FOSSology
Prakash MishraMentored by Kaushlendra, Sahil Jha
The OSS Review Toolkit (ORT) is a robust solution designed to identify and analyze the dependencies within a software project. FOSSology, on the...
Enhance Atarashi's ability
Rajul JhaMentored by Kaushlendra, Amrit Kumar Verma
Atarashi is a modern, information-retrieval-based license scanner. Unlike traditional rule-based approaches, Atarashi leverages statistical...
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Completion of UI using React.js
Tiyasa KunduMentored by Soham Banerjee, Amrit Kumar Verma
This project aims to complete and modernize the React-based UI of FOSSology by aligning it with the updated REST API v2 and current frontend best...
Reuse of clearing decisions using reports from OSSelot project.
Vaibhav_SahuMentored by Shaheem Azmal M MD, jaltenberg
In this project, I am going to add improvements to FOSSology by making the Scancode integration faster and more stable using multithreading. I will...
Support SPDX 3.0 Reports
Abhishek_Kumar011Mentored by Gaurav Mishra, Shaheem Azmal M MD, Sahil Jha
Incorporating SPDX v3.0 compatibility and broadening support for Core, Software, and Licensing profiles, along with the ability to generate reports...
REST API Improvements.
NIYONSENGA ValensMentored by Shaheem Azmal M MD, Soham Banerjee, DUSHIMIMANA Samuel
This proposal aims to address the need for improving and upgrading APIs on FOSSology to version 2 by identifying areas for enhancement, fixing...
REST API Improvements
Divij SharmaMentored by Gaurav Mishra, Shaheem Azmal M MD, Soham Banerjee +1
In recent years, FOSSology's REST APIs have expanded significantly, enhancing user accessibility, flexibility, and automation. However, the...
OVERHAULING SCHEDULER DESIGN
Aaditya SinghMentored by Gaurav Mishra, Shaheem Azmal M MD, Avinal Kumar +1
To address the challenges identified with the FOSSology scheduler, particularly the limitations stemming from its programming language (C) and its...
SPDX license expression support
Akash SahMentored by Gaurav Mishra, Shaheem Azmal M MD
This project aims to support the detection and reporting of SPDX License Expressions. Currently, FOSSology uses regular expressions, full-text match,...
AI-Powered Software License Identification
Abdelrahman JamalMentored by Anupam Ghosh, HastagAB, Kaushlendra +2
One of Fossology's primary features is extracting licenses and license text from files. Traditional methods like text comparison, regular...
Improving Fossology CI Scanner
Rajul JhaMentored by Gaurav Mishra, Shaheem Azmal M MD, Avinal Kumar +1
To be able to easily and continuously scan packages with fossology checks in CI pipelines, a docker image (fossology/fossology:scanner) capable of...
Reducing Fossology's false positive copyrights
Abdelrahman JamalMentored by Gaurav Mishra, Anupam Ghosh, HastagAB +1
This project’s goal is to improve the accuracy of Fossology’s copyright detection system using machine learning. This functionality was originally...
REST API improvements
DUSHIMIMANA SamuelMentored by Gaurav Mishra, Shaheem Azmal M MD, Vivek Kumar +2
Fossology is focusing on the development of a new UI framework, which requires adequate support from REST APIs. However, the current state of...
License as a Service
K-vyaMentored by Gaurav Mishra, Anupam Ghosh, Avinal Kumar +1
It provides a convenient and effective way for organizations to manage their use of open-source licenses. With the growing popularity of open-source...
REST API Completion and improvement
Soham BanerjeeMentored by Gaurav Mishra, Shaheem Azmal M MD, Kaushlendra +1
Developing the remaining REST APIs that are required to expose the database for the new FossologyUI. This proposal also focuses on implementing test...
Support CycloneDX report
Sushant KumarMentored by Gaurav Mishra, Avinal Kumar, HastagAB +1
Currently, FOSSology generates SBOM in SPDX format, which allows for integration with various tools. However, CycloneDX is another popular format for...
Adopting REUSE standards in FOSSology
Rohit_PandeyMentored by Gaurav Mishra, Shaheem Azmal M MD, Vivek Kumar +2
Copyright and licensing is difficult, especially when reusing software from different projects that are released under various different licenses....
FossologyUI Overhaul and REST API Improvements
Soham BanerjeeMentored by Shaheem Azmal M MD, Michael, Shruti Agarwal +1
Working on to improve the current UI of the FOSSology project and bring it to completion. Fixing the known issues of the REST API and exposing new...
REST API and UI improvements for FOSSologyUI
krishna9304Mentored by Shaheem Azmal M MD, Michael, Shruti Agarwal +1
The goal is to take the FOSSologyUI project to completion and finally sync all the features with the fossology old UI. There would also be...
Improve Minerva OSS Dataset and implement models for Atarashi
Sushant KumarMentored by Anupam Ghosh, HastagAB, Kaushlendra +1
To implement some of machine/deep learning models on Minerva OSS Dataset from FOSSology and integrate it to atarashi as an agent. Models that are...
REST API and UI improvements
DUSHIMIMANA SamuelMentored by Anupam Ghosh, Shaheem Azmal M MD, Katharina Ettinger +2
Ideation and implementation of the new design patterns and features to be added to the FOSSology system. Fix bugs of the existing APIs which are not...
Introduce concept of project in FOSSology
fwhdzhMentored by Gaurav Mishra, Shaheem Azmal M MD, Avinal Kumar +1
I would like to participate in the project “Introduce concept of project in FOSSology” which can be founded in the idea list. The “project” is...
Migration of UI into React.js
Shruti AgarwalMentored by Michael Jaeger, Vivek Kumar, Sahil Jha +1
The UI Migration project is an effort focused on generating the new component-based architecture with the integration of the APIs. To make the...
New Build System and improving CI/CD workflow
AvinalMentored by Anupam Ghosh, Shaheem Azmal, GMishx
Build System FOSSology’s build system is based on multilevel makefiles that work together to provide a build infrastructure for the project. Although...
Adding React library to new UI
Aman DwivediMentored by Michael Jaeger, Vivek Kumar, Shaheem Azmal +1
FOSSology frontend is built using the Symfony framework of PHP. It needs to get revamped to make it faster for development, more adaptive to newer...
Copyright False Positive Detection Using ML
Kaushlendra Pratap SinghMentored by HastagAB, Anupam Ghosh, GMishx +1
Fossology's copyright detection agent uses a rule-based approach to detect copyright statements but the agent is showing a lot of False Positives...
ATARASHI - MINERVA
sayshreyaMentored by HastagAB, GMishx
Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) will be included as one of the agents in similarity matching. NLP Library - SpaCy will be used in various agents for...
Making FOSSology architecture microservice friendly
Omar AbdelSameaMentored by Klaus Gmeinwieser, Anupam G, Gaurav Mishra +1
FOSSology is designed in modular fashion but it certainly does not follow micro-service architecture. If there is a change in an agent's logic, the...
Integrating ScanCode Toolkit
Sarita SinghMentored by HastagAB, Gaurav Mishra, Sahil Jha +1
Project Information Nomos and Monk are the two leading scanners FOSSology uses for license detection and Copyright for scanning copyright,url,emails...
Refurbishing Atarashi
Kaushlendra Pratap SinghMentored by Anupam Ghosh, Gaurav Mishra, Michael Jaeger
Atarashi scans for license statements in open source software, focusing on text statistics. Designed to work stand-alone and with Fossology. It...
Dashboard ( Python, influxDB, Grafana )
Darshan KansagaraMentored by Sandip Kumar Bhuyan, Gaurav Mishra, Shaheem Azmal M MD
FOSSology generates a large set of data that can be exported to the time-series Influx database and visualized with the help of a grafana dashboard....
Accelerating Atarashi
HastagABMentored by Anupam Ghosh, Gaurav Mishra, Aman Jain
Currently, Atarashi has 4 active agents types that use 9 different types of algorithms to find the similarity between license statements. According...
Integration of Software Heritage in FOSSology
Sandip Kumar BhuyanMentored by Michael Jaeger, Shaheem Azmal
FOSSology is a open source license compliance software system and toolkit. As a toolkit a user can run license, copyright and export control scans...
Spasht Agent
Vivek_KumarMentored by Gaurav Mishra, Shaheem Azmal
Clearly Defined is a collection metadata of licences, copyrights and the source codes. Clearly Defined clarifies data on open source components, and...
Continuation of Atarashi OSS
HastagABMentored by Anupam Ghosh, Aman Jain, Michael Jaeger
Atarashi scans for license statements in open source software, focusing on text statistics. Designed to work stand-alone and with FOSSology. Right...
New/ Improved License Scanner
amanjain5221Mentored by Michael C. Jaeger, Anupam Ghosh
Software License compliance is very important for any business/ OSS(open source software) nowadays which creates a need for more accurate license...
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