Topic: license compliance
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GitHub’s new tool prevents costly open-source license violations
GitHub's new License Compliance feature, in public preview for GitHub Advanced Security customers, automatically scans pull requests for new dependencies and flags those that don't match organizational policies to prevent legal and reputational risks. The tool allows teams to review dependencies,...
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Is Open Source Dying in the Age of AI?
The digital world relies on free and open source software (FOSS), which operates on a principle of reciprocity and requires code provenance to trace origins and ensure proper licensing. Generative AI threatens this system by producing code snippets stripped of their origin and licensing, leading ...
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Stop IT Plagiarism: A Guide to Protecting Your Code
Code plagiarism poses serious legal, ethical, and reputational risks in commercial environments, leading to potential copyright infringement and loss of trust. Prevention strategies include writing original code, properly citing sources, using version control, checking licenses, and customizing A...
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Dependency-Track: Open-Source Software Supply Chain Security
Dependency-Track is an open-source platform that provides continuous, real-time monitoring of software supply chain risks by analyzing Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs) across an organization's entire portfolio. It identifies vulnerabilities, outdated components, and licensing issues by aggrega...
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CISA issues new open-source software guidance
CISA released a new guide outlining how federal agencies should manage open source software (OSS) risks, including evaluating projects before adoption, maintaining inventories, and using software bills of materials (SBOMs) to track supply chain vulnerabilities. The guidance urges agencies to acti...
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