Show HN: FOSSA – Effortlessly track and comply with open source licenses

fossa.io

26 points·XiZhao··8 comments

Hi HN — founder here, and really pleased to share FOSSA with you!

Over the past year, we’ve been incubating the product at some amazing companies like SolarCity and SmartThings (more announcing soon!) to scale it across cutting-edge engineering teams and get it ready for this moment.

Today, we’re also announcing a $2.2MM seed round led by Bain Capital Ventures with participation from humbling angels including the founders of Salesforce, Skype, YouTube, Cloudera, Tinder and others — read more about it here: https://medium.com/fossa/announcing-fossa-public-beta-fundin...

Excited to hear your feedback on what we’ve built. You may have used a free resource on OSS licensing that we created and maintain: http://tldrlegal.com. We see FOSSA as an attempt to tackle similar problems in a commercial scenario.

(I'm an investor in Fossa)

Open source is ubiquitous, and few seem to have a great handle on what they are using. Excited to see Fossa take a stab at this in a way that is developer-friendly.

Also check out tldrLegal, software licenses in plain english: https://tldrlegal.com.

Already so much value from TL;DR informing FOSSA!

If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

If I knew the giants I stood on, it is by the work of Fossa.

I've known Kevin for a long time -- smart, persistent, and on top of things. Cheering for him and Fossa!

A long-needed solution to an increasingly important problem -- I hope they keep a free version after the Beta.

Big fan of Fossa and the team. They're solving an important problem.

This is awesome

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