Free and Open Source Software Audit

Free and Open Source Software Audit

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Discontinued. This listing is kept in OSS.Fund for reference, but the platform no longer appears active.

FOSSA, the Free and Open Source Software Audit project, was created by the European Union to improve the security of widely used open source infrastructure through audits, hackathons, and bug-bounty programmes. The programme has ended, but it remains an important historical example of government-backed grant and bounty funding for open source security.

Area Funding
Category Grants
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Non-profit Security OSS-specific
Official websitehttps://felixreda.eu/fossa/
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OrganizationGovernment
Open source statusOpen source public programme
Platform technologyPublic-sector open source security funding programme
Monetization modelEU sponsored support for FOSS
Payment methodsEuropean Commission programme administration and bug-bounty payouts
Platform feesFOSSA was a public funding programme, not a fee-charging platform.
User activityEU-FOSSA 2 ran 15 bug bounty programmes, found more than 200 bugs, and paid over €200,000 in rewards before the project ended in 2020.
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