Mitigate Legal Risks. Discover Unapproved Software.

When you examine open source and third party software licensing issues, cutting through the complexity of license versions and incompatible obligations is difficult at best. Communication bottlenecks between lawyers and engineers make information hard to get. As an attorney, your role is to advise decision makers on strategies to mitigate legal risk and to help establish legal policies and governance procedures.

When you need to understand code origins and licensing obligations, would it help to have one, authoritative information source? Let Black Duck help you—

• View timely, comprehensive analysis. Access a bill of materials, identifying all external software components currently in use, including code origin and licenses. View a report identifying software licensing conflicts.

• Provide legal review for code vetting. Help developers build a catalog of approved, reusable code that conforms to legal guidance. Further speed licensing reviews by automating the software approval process. This approach unburdens developers and gives legal counsel complete and comprehensive information.

Know Your Code™. With transparency into code origins and license obligations, you can offer strategic guidance to mitigate legal risks. Black Duck solutions let general counsel collaborate online with engineering, procurement, information security, and management. At the same time, Black Duck Software helps accelerate time-to-market and reduce costs. As a result, conscientious governance of external code becomes part of your organization’s high-productivity software workflow.

How can you find out more information?

• Find out about Black Duck™ Protex, which validates your software bill-of-materials for each project and helps discover unapproved software in your code base.

• Explore how Black Duck™ Code Center helps engineers efficiently reuse open source code while observing legal and other governance policies. Read about the Black Duck Code Center workflow framework, which helps developers and legal counsel collaborate to do their jobs more effectively.

• Learn a set of best practices that companies can use to avoid the risks and gain the benefits of mixed-origin software development. Read the whitepaper entitled Best Practices for Managing Software Intellectual Property in an Open Source World.