What is the Black Duck Code Label ™?

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Similar to ingredient labels found on common food items, the Black Duck Code Label provides information about the composition of your code. Utilizing the power of Protex, the Black Duck Code Label indicates the existence of open source code, how much there is, and what licenses are relevant to each component.

What are the benefits of the Black Duck Code Label?

The Black Duck Code Label presents accurate information in an easy to understand format that can be communicated throughout an organization. This accessibility to data and the ability for collaboration allows companies to reduce business risks by better managing code reuse and accelerate time to market by providing information that will speed negotiations and more easily facilitate the release process.

Who benefits from the Black Duck Code Label?

Everyone in the software supply chain benefits from the Black Duck Code Label as it offers each constituent with a common language for how to describe the continents of software, rather than needing a translator at each stage.

Internally, this will help senior management and legal staff to understand possible business issues, such as license impact and code reuse, while software engineers will be able to relay to management how their efficiency is increasing through the reuse of code components.

Externally, business partners can compare their Black Duck Code Label against your company policy, so any potential conflicts can be assessed early in the development life cycle. Meanwhile, with the increase in lawsuits for the improper use of open source, more and more customers are requesting that companies audit and verify the composition of their code before a purchase is made.

How can you find out more information?

For additional information about the Black Duck Protex platform, our company offers the following resources:

• Protex datasheet – Overview of the Protex solution

• Protex Code Estimation Tool - Black Duck Software provides an estimation tool which allows you to determine the size of your code base

• Whitepaper - Best Practices for Managing Software Intellectual Property in an Open Source World

• EPAM Case Study

• Contact Black Duck