in this post, i rant about licensing

FOSSology can be a useful tool for doing the data-searching part of a licensing check. Instead of going through each file by hand and noting its license, FOSSology can basically do that part for you. But a human still needs to go through those results and interpret them—which is especially tricky in cases like the afio one spot found where there are misleading license notices. So, in its current state, it can save a lot of time, and maybe even suggest problem spots to check out, but I'm not sure it makes the work any less of an effort, if that makes sense.