Black Duck Software pioneered the automation of mixed-origin software component reuse management. The company’s products and services allow organizations to analyze the composition of software source code and binary files, search for reusable code, manage open source and third-party code approval, honor the legal obligations associated with mixed-origin code, and monitor related security vulnerabilities.

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  • Alan Facey, Executive Vice President of Sales
  • Andreas Zink, Vice President of Engineering Corporate Counsel
  • Bill McQuaide, Executive Vice President of Product and Services
  • Kenneth Goldman, Executive Vice President and CFO
  • Peter Vescuso, Senior Vice President of Marketing
  • Sean K. Gusmini, Esq.
  • Tim Yeaton, President and CEO
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  • Tim Yeaton, President and CEO
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  • Black Duck Software pioneered the automation of mixed-origin software component reuse management. The company’s products and services allow organizations to analyze the composition of software source code and binary files, search for reusable code, manage open source and third-party code approval, honor the legal obligations associated with mixed-origin code, and monitor related security vulnerabilities. Black Duck is considered a technology industry leader and often cited in media articles about open source. Black Duck Software maintains an extensive KnowledgeBase of open source and third party components - most of which are available on the Internet. In the KnowledgeBase, each component is characterized by metadata such as license, language, version, author, and known security vulnerabilities. Black Duck products use this information to facilitate search, selection, approval, validation and tracking of software components. Black Duck Software maintains the open source search engine Koders. The availability of open source software code on the Internet enables software developers to download open source code and incorporate it into run-time environments and new software under development. Since the code is obtained without being purchased, this practice can bypass traditional procurement management and legal review. The use and redistribution of open source code is governed by a variety of software licenses, specifically open source licenses, some of which are quite complex. The terms and obligations of these licenses can conflict with one another or with an organization’s goals. The most common open source license is the GNU General Public License, or GPL, which includes obligations to credit the original author and copyright holder and to distribute the source code along with any derivative work. The Black Duck Software website includes a free service providing information and analysis about open source licenses. Open source software creates an efficient business model, incorporating a collaborative software development model. However, modifying or redistributing open source while failing to honor open source license obligations creates legal liability for corporations and their officers. In 2007, open source license infringement litigation went to court in the U.S. for the first time in a suit filed by the Software Freedom Law Center. According to Mark Radcliffe, Deputy General Counsel for the Open Source Initiative, as current and future suits are decided, important case law precedents will be established about the remedies available to open source plaintiffs. This is the context in which a niche market has developed for products and services from companies such as Black Duck Software that provide automation and information to manage the complexity of emergent composite software development models while avoiding business and legal risks.
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