OpenText Core SCA Select Extension

Open Source Select will help developers find and use the right open source and reduce friction between organisations and developers

Open Source Select helps you find and use policy compliant and great open-source for any development project. The OpenText Core SCA Select Extension is a free plugin created with developers in mind, enabling you to check the health metrics and license information of an open source project at a glance. If you need more granular data, the extension can lead you to Open Source Select for more detailed information. The three types of metrics you can examine are: Community - How healthy the community around a project is. Popularity - Is it used by many? Is the usage declining? Security - How well does the maintainers apply security best practices. The extension now supports Start Left Policies. This lets you immediately see if the open source you are browsing is compliant with your company’s open source policy, without the need to import and scan code with Software Composition Analysis tools and common source code repositories and package registries such as GitHub, pypi, npmjs, nuget and many others are supported.