Kevin Wang - Dependency Heaven

FOSSA Raises a $23.2M Series B

As software eats the world, open source inventory has become critical for modern businesses to digest it. The business value driving software composition analysis is fueled by initiatives across legal, security, and engineering, with a first-line priority of enforcing policy and standards.

Inside FOSSA

FOSSA Acquires Dawn Labs

At FOSSA, an intuition for developer-focused products is a critical part of not only our differentiation, but also our mission.

Inside FOSSA

FOSSA Raises $8.5M for Enterprise 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.

Open Source License Compliance

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.

Open Source License Compliance

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.

Open Source in the News

Discussing Commons Clause on Software Engineering Daily

Fossa Inc's CEO Kevin discusses Commons Clause with Software Engineering Daily Podcast.

Inside FOSSA

FOSSA 0.8.0: Overhauling our onboarding system + other usability improvements

In this update, we brought big changes for your teams. We have been working hard to build best open source management tool.

Inside FOSSA

300+ New Licenses Supported in FOSSA

We’d like to announce some major license data quality updates that we’ve introduced this weekend. We added support for over 300 new license to our library.

Open Source License Compliance

JS Foundation chooses FOSSA as the Open Source License Cert. Provider

We’re excited to share that the JS Foundation (home of ESLint, jQuery, Lodash, Mocha, Webpack and more), has chosen FOSSA as their Open…

Inside FOSSA

Combating Alert Fatigue with a Global Issue Dashboard

This announcement post from Fossa is about the launch of new dashboard that provides tools for managing issue alerts and component data.

Inside FOSSA

Open sourcing FOSSA’s build analysis in fossa-cli

This announcement is about FOSSA's decision to open sourcing their dependency analysis infrastructure on GitHub. Check us out to participate and have access to the tools to get dependency data out of any codebase.

Open Source License Compliance

Legal Concerns for SaaS Companies Going On-Prem

The article explains how as a SaaS company, we held the line against on-prem by creating template for on premises Software License Agreement which includes a "License Grant"and by adding an "On-Prem " option rather than sticking to a hosted services model for Open Source License Compliance.

Open Source License Compliance

Don’t Over-REACT to the Facebook Patents License

This post was written by Heather Meeker and originally posted on the FOSSA Medium Publication in August of 2017.

Open Source License Compliance

The Ultimate GPL Survival Guide

If you work in consumer electronics, drones, IoT, or automotive devices based on generic Linux or Android codebases, chances are you have…

Inside FOSSA

Announcing FOSSA Public Beta & Funding

Today, I’m pleased to announce the launch of FOSSA (v0.4.0) — our public beta release to help you track your open source libraries and…

Software Composition Analysis

You can’t get around code scanning if you care about open source licenses

Today, every developer uses open source software (OSS) in their apps. If you’re developing modern software, you should probably be using a…

Open Source License Compliance

How SmartThings runs IoT open source compliance across dozens of releases per day

In an environment where slowing down wasn’t an option, FOSSA was brought in to get a working process within days that covered every part of development without getting in the way.

Inside FOSSA

FOSSA partners with npm to deliver open source license compliance