TrustRadius Insights for FOSSA are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.
Pros
Comprehensive and Detailed Evaluations: Several users have praised FOSSA for its highly comprehensive and detailed evaluations, which provide prompt information as required.
Effective Security Management Toolkit: Users have commended FOSSA's security management toolkit for its ability to alert enterprises of any risks related to known vulnerabilities and license management in open-source code. This feature has been particularly helpful in reducing the time needed to identify open-source licensing issues.
User-Friendly Interface and Integration: FOSSA's user interface has received positive feedback from users, who describe it as clean and user-friendly. It makes it easy to see all the different dependencies, their licenses, and the necessary actions to ensure compliance. Additionally, users appreciate how easily FOSSA integrates with various CI/CD platforms like Jenkins, Gitlab, Bamboo, and Github, allowing them to seamlessly incorporate it into their existing workflows.
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!
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Verified User
Engineer in Engineering (Computer Software company, 1-10 employees)