FOSSA Named to CNBC's Upstart 100 We are excited to announce FOSSA has been named to CNBC's Upstart 100 List, CNBC's annual list of top startups to watch.
Inside FOSSA FOSSA Acquires Dawn Labs When I first installed VSCode in 2015, it was like witnessing magic. It was so well-built, every detail seemed to telegraph the amount of thought put behind the nooks and crannies of the
Inside FOSSA September 2019 Product Release Notes FOSSA's September releases includes app performance and stability improvements, new reporting formats, updated jira integration, and updates to the FOSSA CLI.
Inside FOSSA FOSSA Raises $8.5M for Enterprise-Ready Open Source Management I'm excited to announce that FOSSA has raised an $8.5M Series A from Bain Capital Ventures, Costanoa Ventures and Norwest Venture Partners. This brings our total funding to $11M and funds the growth of our incredible team, product and customer base.
DevOps DevOps and Open Source + CI/CD = Mitigating Risk Without Sacrificing Speed FOSSA is on the road in Europe this month, partnering with Cloudbees for three dates in London (Thursday, 12 September), Frankfurt (Tuesday, 24 September) and Stockholm (Thursday, 24 September). Cloudbees Days is billed
Inside FOSSA August Product Release Notes Learn more about FOSSA's August product updates. We've added new languages, updated issue management, and added new reporting functionality.
Inside FOSSA We’re excited to partner with CircleCI to release our CircleCI orb! We've partnered with CircleCI to seamlessly integrate open source compliance and vulnerability management into your CI/CD pipeline.
Inside FOSSA July Product Release Notes This July we've been focusing on improving our CLI and reports, as well as adding support for Rust.
License A Partnership Between Legal Teams and Software Engineers is More Important Than Ever With new legislation and new technologies, a partnership between legal teams and software engineers is more important than ever. Learn more about the responsibilities these two teams share.
Inside FOSSA Marketing Intern Reflection Hi! My name is Mahak Bandi and for the past six weeks I've been the Marketing Intern at FOSSA. After completing my freshman year of college at Purdue University, I was fortunate enough
licenses Top 6 Most Out-There Open Source Licenses Usually open source components are licensed under common licenses such as the MIT, GPL, or Apache Licenses. However, there are some creative, funny, and ridiculous open source licenses out there as well–here are the top 6!
Inside FOSSA June Product Release Notes At FOSSA, we’re kicking off the summer with a new report types, and new integration support, and some major enhancements to our project page.
open source What Do Open Source Licenses Even Mean? Open source licenses determine how an open source library is accessed, used, and redistributed. It's important to understand because there are legal responsibilities and pros/cons to each license. There are two main categories of OSS licenses–permissive and copyleft.
open source 3 Things to Watch Out for with a Private Artifact Repository A private artifact repository is a beneficial resource for collaboration and to keep open source software packages in a centralized location. However, there are three things to look out for to ensure open source license compliance.
Licensing Still Asking Engineers to Fill Out Open Source Request Forms? Many companies require a form driven process to use new open source components. Here are some of the pitfalls around manual approval processes and best practices around using open source in your products.
announcement We’re Excited to Announce Our CNCF Membership At FOSSA, we believe in supporting the open source community. That's why we are proud members of the CNFC, a major contributor to the open source community.
License A Case For Continuous Compliance Changes in software delivery practices mean it’s time for open source compliance processes to adapt and mirror the software development practices. Learn how to modernize your open source compliance.
License Creating a Comprehensive Third-Party Package License Policy Learn best practices for creating a Third Party Package License Policy from industry expert and lawyer Kate Downing.
Licensing Why Open Source License Compliance Needs to Be CI-Agnostic Platform-agnostic tools are a key part of modernizing developer workflows. License-compliance tools should work with whatever setup you choose to use today, tomorrow, and the more-distant future.
Customers Automating Open Source Reports with FOSSA at Applause Our customer Applause's SVP Rob Mason shares his experience with automating open source reports with Fossa for their customers & partners' software development.
Licensing Cost/Benefit Analysis: Manual Audits vs Automated License Compliance As a software company, you need to protect the integrity of your most important asset — your product and code. This article covers the cost benefit analysis of manual audits vs automated license compliance.
Engineering Fast Integration Tests for 3rd Party Services - The Easy Way In this article, we will learn how mocha-tape-deck is a practical way applied in most cases for integration testing.
Engineering Reflecting on 1 year of early-stage engineering Leo shares his experience as a software developer at Fossa. Previously, he worked at Google as a new grad where he learned organizational structure and best practices of engineering management.
Licensing Which open source license is best for commercialization? Choosing an open source license is an important decisions for engineering teams. This articles compares the best open sources licenses for commercialization.
