Knowledge Center

Black Duck Software offers a host of educational resources covering topics surrounding open source and encryption export compliance. For a full list of educational materials, please select a category on the left. Alternatively, we have provided the most popular downloads below.

Case Studies

Microsoft Windows Software Vendor

Black Duck Software helped a Microsoft Windows software vendor raise $10 million in funding from Fidelity Ventures by enabling the vendor to document and properly license open source and third party software in its products. The company plans to use Black Duck Protex to protect new product releases from the risk of inadvertently incorporating open source and third party software into its code.

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A week in the Life of a Black Duck™ Protex-enabled Enterprise (use case)

Although each enterprise is unique, there are underlying similarities in how companies effectively use the software Bill of Materials and licensing information that Black Duck Protex provides. To help companies plot their course, Black Duck has created a primer that incorporates the varied experiences of many of our customers into the story of one theoretical company.

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Datasheets

Black Duck™ Protex Datasheet

Software Compliance solution Black Duck Protex creates a new work environment that helps organizations effectively manage their increasingly complex software licensing obligations.

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Podcasts - New!

3-Part Podcast Series

Join Doug Levin, CEO of Black Duck Software and Bernard Golden, CEO of Navica and author of "Succeeding with Open Source," in this three-part podcast series. They will discuss how open source affects software developers, attorneys and business and enterprise organizations.

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Online Presentations

Best Practices for Managing Code Reuse (51 mins)
By Palle Pedersen, Advisor, Black Duck Software

Black Duck Software has developed best practices that will help organizations develop a way to manage code reuse within their organization. Careful management of code reuse will allow companies to decrease development costs and time while mitigating business risks.

Join Palle Pedersen, Advisor to Black Duck Software, in an educational webinar that will provide a technical perspective on managing code reuse.

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Whitepapers

String Search and You May Find

This paper describes the pros and cons of string search to determine code origins, and issues with interpreting string search results. The paper then describes how code analysis based on fuzzy matching against a comprehensive code database leads to a superior outcome.

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The Quest for an "Open Source Genome"

This paper describes how the “open source genome” concept can be useful in understanding the origin and history of your code. We explore the nature of open source, why and how software developers use it, how information from an open source genome can help identify open source in your code and establish its origins, and why that is important.

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