Case Study: JS Foundation achieves automated license compliance and audit-grade certification with FOSSA

JS Foundation chooses FOSSA as the Open Source License Certification Provider

The JS Foundation, home to critical JavaScript projects like ESLint, jQuery and webpack, needed a scalable way to manage license compliance across 28 projects that together power much of the web. Faced with thousands of third‑party dependencies and limited legal resources, the JS Foundation selected FOSSA (deployed via FOSSA Cloud) as its Open Source License Certification Provider to automate dependency and license tracking.

FOSSA implemented continuous, per‑project scanning with integrations into CI, pull requests and Slack, plus audit‑grade reports and release badges. The deployment ramped up in minutes and within a week reached 24 license‑certified projects, tracking over 2,000 components and surfacing issues (for example, misleading metadata that looked like GPL) before they became problems. By automating compliance, FOSSA reduced manual review effort, increased visibility across projects and established trusted, repeatable certification for the JS Foundation.

JS Foundation

Kris Borchers

Executive Director