FOSSID at the Open Compliance Summit 2019
One of the events closest to our hearts is the Open Compliance Summit in Tokyo, December 17-18, 2019. This year we are proud to be Gold sponsors, simply because we are so excited about the topics to be discussed, and the impressive lineup of speakers and attendees. We...
Interview with Shane Coughlan, GM of OpenChain, Linux Foundation
Shane Coughlan leads the OpenChain project at the Linux Foundation. We managed to steal a few minutes of his time to talk about OpenChain, open source, compliance and security. But first, a brief backgrounder on Shane. Shane has been involved in open source in one way...
FOSSID at the Open Source Strategy Forum 2019
Meet FOSSID at the Open Source Strategy Forum 2019 FOSSID contributes to the acceleration of innovation in financial services through adoption of open source software, and is sponsoring the FINOS Open Source Strategy Forum, November 20th in New York City. Get to know...
Why a Changing Open Source Licensing Landscape Reinforces Better Compliance Practices
If Only There Was a Manual for Monetizing Open Source If you follow open source licensing developments and news, you’re most definitely aware of the highly dynamic environment we’ve been witnessing for the past 18-24 months. At the heart of the matter,...
How Mastering Compliance Will Help You Master Software
Software. It’s running everything, right? Do you even remember a time where there were actual levers and knobs in your car, and not gigantic touchscreens? When the coffee machine wasn’t connected to the Internet? When your fridge didn’t update your...
Reinventing Open Source Vulnerability Detection
Have you ever used a tool to find open source vulnerabilities in your software, only to find whole components and all of their matching CVEs as the result? With the VulnSnippetFinder from FOSSID you find the actual lines of code that introduce...
FOSSID Becomes the First Tooling Vendor to Partner with OpenChain
From the get-go, we realized that OpenChain would become a driver of great value to entire ecosystems, making open source license compliance more efficient and bringing better confidence to every layer in the supply chain. Having been keen observers and...
Fossid Is One of Sweden’s Most Innovative Young Tech Companies
Every year, Sweden’s top weekly tech magazine Ny Teknik, in association with finance paper Affärsvärlden review hundreds of young Swedish companies, in search of innovation and new technological solutions with great international growth potential. The...
What Is AI and How Does It Impact the Open Source World?
Artificial intelligence (AI) is about designing and building computers and computer systems to perform tasks that would otherwise require human competence or intelligence. Used wisely it helps software developers to effectively manage their use of open source.
Recommended Practices for Developers Using GitHub
Improve your GitHub presence and attract more users and developers to your project with these twelve recommended practices.
Walkthrough of an Open Source Compliance Process
This blog post gives an overview of a typical open source compliance process and illustrates the phases that free and open source software components go through before they are approved for usage.
The FOSSID Web Application
The FOSSID web application provides a graphical user interface for individuals or teams to conduct their open source software compliance activities, including audits.
Open Source Audits in Merger and Acquisition Transactions
With open source software becoming part of the computing fabric of how companies create, share and distribute software, and the popularity of open source first and upstream first policies, it is becoming extremely hard to find a company that does not rely on open...
7 Essential Tips for Getting Started with FOSS Compliance
In the 5th episode of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Open Source Compliance we are sharing a few essential tips for enterprises to consider as they start building their Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) compliance programs.
This is FOSSID
You might have seen FOSSID at an open source software compliance event, or maybe heard our name through the grape vine from a customer who transitioned to us from a competing vendor. Bur who are we? This blog post gives an answer.