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Open source software is everywhere today. Recent surveys show that 96% of codebases contain some open source components and 77% of the code in those codebases originated from open source projects. With the adoption of generative-AI coding assistants that in many cases may be trained on open source, the ubiquity of open source in software development is predicted to increase even further. Software teams need to regain control over third-party software within their codebases.
Prioritizing Open Source License Conflict Risk
When it comes to software risk management, identifying and mitigating known security vulnerabilities in open source software used in your codebase is important for sure. But is it the greatest risk to your business? FossID’s OSS Knowledge Base tracks nearly 200 million different open source software components and over 2,000 different open source licenses. That means within this massive 3 petabyte dataset, only 0.5% of these components have known vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs). That’s not to diminish the critical nature of open source software security vulnerability risk, but rather to elevate awareness of open source software license compliance risk. The likelihood of your commercial codebase containing an open source component with problematic copyright and license restrictions is much higher than you may have thought.
