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FOSSA vs Gemnasium: What are the differences?
FOSSA: Continuously scan and comply with open source licenses across your deep dependencies. Continuously scan and comply with open source licenses across your deep dependencies; Gemnasium: Parses your project's dependencies and notifies you when new versions are released or they need to be updated. Gemnasium keeps track of projects dependencies. Ruby, Node.js, PHP composer, Bower and Python projects dependencies are automatically parsed, and notifications sent when new versions are released or security advisories are published.
FOSSA and Gemnasium can be primarily classified as "Dependency Monitoring" tools.
FOSSA is an open source tool with 678 GitHub stars and 58 GitHub forks. Here's a link to FOSSA's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of FOSSA
- Easy to integrate1
- Fewer false positives1
- Native to CI1
- Supports full text license scanning1