What is a 60 Second Webinar?

Black Duck Software produces free webinars on various topics in open source.  As a means for you to find the topics that interest you the most, we also provide 60 second overviews of our most popular webinars.

Full Length Recorded Webinars and Slide

Here you will find links to the full length recordings of the Black Duck Webinars along with the slides for each.

Black Duck & SAP Webinar: Open Source as a Strategic Business Enabler: A Case Study with SAP

SAP is the world’s leading provider of business software with approximately 95,000 customers in over 120 countries. To maintain its strong position in the market one of the areas where SAP focuses on is to continuously increase the speed of its product innovation and development productivity – not an easy task given that almost 15,000 employees work in software development.

This focus on product innovation and development productivity eventually also motivated SAP to adapt its approach towards open source over the past years realizing additional benefits along the way including improved interoperability and standardization.

In this webinar Black Duck Software and SAP will review the benefits open source holds for development organizations, the management challenges it presents, and approaches for addressing the challanges. In addition, SAP will describe how their use of open source evolved from managing open source as an exception, to making it an integral part of their multi-source development approach, to becoming the third-largest corporate code contributor to the Eclipse Foundation. At the end of the webinar there will be an interactive question-and-answer session.

Black Duck Webinar: An Introduction to Open Source Licensing: Learn the Essentials

Open source software has significant benefits and is free, but it is not free of obligations. Gartner Research recently found that while virtually all mainstream IT organizations leverage open source in one capacity or another, fewer than 30% currently have an OSS governance policy in place. With over 1,900 different licenses available today, each with their own obligations, it can be difficult to properly manage the use of open source. Webinar attendees will learn the basics and advance their ability to reap the benefits of open source while managing the associated risks.

This Webinar, presented by Black Duck with Karen Copenhaver, partner at Choate Hall & Stewart and Counsel for the Linux Foundation and Mark Radcliffe, partner at DLA Piper and General Counsel for the Open Source Initiative (OSI), covers the basics of open source, including open source definitions, and the different types of licenses.

Black Duck, Bird & Bird & Clearvision  Webinar: Open Source - What's hiding in your code?

Do you know what's hiding in your code? It is easy to incorrectly use Open Source code - licensing is complex. Developers and outsourced partners are under extreme pressure to deliver; are they taking shortcuts? The probability of falling foul of Open Source licensing is increasing significantly.

Gartner predict that by 2011, 80% of organisations will have open source code within their own software, whether they are aware of it or not.

Many well known commercial companies have already had problems resulting from unlawful use of Open Source Software within their code.

The possible consequences are well documented:

• Proprietary product risks
• Financial risks
• Brand and reputational risks
• Contractual risks

What legal risks are hiding in your code?

We have also invited Bird & Bird, a leading international IT law firm, to join us on the webinar to provide background on the legal risks associated with the use of Open Source code. Advice relating to the legal implications of using Open Source code is predicted to increase as the understanding of the benefits and commercial value of Open Source code develops.

The webinar will include:

• Strategic advice on the use of Open Source code and its impact on business models and product architecture;
• A description of the common and misunderstood licensing obligations in Open Source licences; and
• An analysis of licence compatibility issues, including conflicts between Open Source licences and traditional proprietary licences and the conflicts associated with aggregating different Open Source code and libraries licensed under incompatible licences.