FOSSA - The future of license scanning
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
I use FOSSA to scan the licenses of software I use for a side-project of mine. Overall the automated scans and emails work great! It is nice to have the peace of mind that the licenses used to create our software are all above board and cleared for redistribution/re-use. We link it to GitHub, so every push gets scanned by FOSSA as part of our quality control process.
Pros
- Setup of tool.
- Speed of scans.
- Automated emails with reports.
Cons
- Interface for loading results can be slow, this is the #1 issue we have faced.
- Speed of scans could be improved.
Likelihood to Recommend
The only issue we have had is sometimes the web app is too slow, and that causes issues with us wanting to continue to use FOSSA over going with another tool. That is the only problem. I noticed it happened more recently, but if that is solved now or will be solved, I would 100% recommend this tool to anyone!
