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Safeguard articles tagged "open-source" — guides, analysis, and best practices for software supply chain and application security.
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What Is the GPL License? Copyleft Explained
The GNU General Public License is the best-known copyleft license. This guide explains what it permits, its source-disclosure obligations, GPLv2 vs GPLv3, and what it means for your project.
Software Supply Chain Security for Beginners: A Friendly First Guide
New to software supply chain security? This gentle, practical guide explains what it is, why every modern app depends on it, and how to run your very first check today.
What Is the Apache 2.0 License? A Complete Guide
The Apache License 2.0 is a permissive license with an explicit patent grant and a few conditions that set it apart from MIT and BSD. Here is what it permits, requires, and means for compliance.
What Is the MIT License? A Plain-English Guide
The MIT License is one of the shortest and most permissive open-source licenses in existence. Here is exactly what it lets you do, what it requires, and what it means for compliance.
OpenSSF Scorecard v5.1: Azure DevOps Support and File-Mode Selection
Scorecard v5.1 added experimental Azure DevOps repository support and a new --file-mode flag that materially changes how repository files are fetched.
Patch the Planet: What AI-Generated Fixes Actually Mean for Open-Source Maintainers
OpenAI's Patch the Planet, co-founded with Trail of Bits, wants to move widely-used open-source projects from findings to fixes. The ambition is right — but it shifts the bottleneck to maintainer review, patch provenance, and the trust of machine-authored code.
OpenSSF Scorecard v6 Roadmap: OSPS Baseline Conformance
The Scorecard v6 proposal introduces PASS/FAIL/ATTESTED conformance against the OSPS Baseline, versioned probe mapping, and CI gating. Here is what consumers and maintainers need to know.
Black Hat Arsenal 2026 Preview: The Agentic AI and Supply-Chain Tools to Watch
Black Hat USA 2026 runs August 1–6 at Mandalay Bay, with Arsenal August 4–6. Here is an honest preview of the open-source tool categories worth your time — and how to tell signal from demo-day hype.
CVE-2025-9086 in cURL: Patch Posture & SBOM Response
Heap out-of-bounds read in libcurl's cookie path comparison affects nearly every Linux distro. Defender SBOM playbook below.
React Diff Viewer: Is the npm Package Still Safe to Use?
The original react-diff-viewer has not shipped a release in years. Here is what that means for security and why most teams should move to the maintained fork.
babel-loader: Keeping Your Babel Toolchain Lean and Patched
The babel-loader npm package bridges webpack and Babel in millions of builds. Here's how to configure it for speed, keep the toolchain patched, and know when you no longer need it.
react-native-video-processing: Status, Risks, and Alternatives
A security-minded look at react-native-video-processing: what the library does, its maintenance status, the native dependency risk, and what to use instead.
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