FOSSA vs. WhiteSource Comparison - UPDATED 2019

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FOSSA

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Director at a media company

Enables scanning of third-party libraries to ensure policy compliance but needs better role definition

To prevent shipping commercial or GPL libraries, we scan our repositories.

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Overview
Open Source has become the critical supplier for modern software companies, changing everything about how people think about their code. FOSSA builds the infrastructure for modern teams to be successful with open source. FOSSA's flagship product helps teams track the open source used in their code and automate license scanning and compliance. Since then, over 3000 open source projects (Kubernetes, Webpack, Terraform, ESLint) and companies (Docker, Tesla, Mapbox, Hashicorp) rely on FOSSA's tools to ship software. If you are in the software industry today, you're now using code that runs FOSSA.	WhiteSource offers an agile approach to open source management. WhiteSource is a SaaS solution that integrates with your build process and audits your open source licenses, security and more every time you run your build.
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