Under the Hood of FOSSA’s New License Scanner

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Scott Patten, Software Engineer, FOSSA

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Open source license scanning tools like FOSSA play an important role in software development for many organizations. That’s because these tools automate what would otherwise be the manual (and time-consuming) process of identifying and inventorying the licenses that govern use of open source code But how, exactly, does a license scanner work? And how can you be sure they produce accurate results? Join FOSSA software engineer Scott Patten on June 29 for answers to these questions and more. Scott will share a behind-the-scenes look at our new license scanning technology, including insight into topics like: -Design priorities for our new license scanner -Types of license matching -A deep dive into the license detection algorithms -Important lessons learned
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Up to 90% of any piece of software is from open source, creating countless dependencies and areas of risk to manage. FOSSA is the most reliable automated policy engine for vulnerability management, license compliance, and code quality across the open source stack. With FOSSA, engineering, security, and legal teams all get complete and continuous risk mitigation for the entire software supply chain, integrated into each of their existing workflows.