Mitigate Legal Risks. Discover Unapproved Software. Safeguard Your Organization.

 In your role as general counsel, you need to manage risk, ensure compliance and safeguard your company’s reputation. Your development team knows that open source software has significant business and technical benefits, but needs to be properly managed. When it comes to open source governance, cutting through the complexity of acquiring and evaluating external components and the associated legal obligations can be difficult and time-consuming. And while the use of open source software is inevitable, you know how important open source compliance, open source licensing and open source software security policies are to protecting your organization.

Black Duck can help you mitigate risks and ensure open source compliance while enabling your development team to use it broadly to boost productivity. Our solutions provide:

• Timely, comprehensive analysis. Easily identify and receive a report on all external software components currently in use, including code origins and licenses. Examine a detailed description of any unresolved open source software licensing issues and recommendations for remediation. Easily access and review the complete text for all relevant licenses.
• Robust legal review for code. Offer your guidance to establish a clear set of code reuse rules and help developers build a catalog of pre-approved code. Our automated code vetting removes the guess work from both software development and licensing reviews.

Find Out More:

• Learn more about how the Black Duck® Suite can help you mitigate risks and ensure compliance while enabling your development organization to unleash the potential of open source. The Black Duck Suite provides a powerful workflow framework that helps developers and legal counsel collaborate to do their jobs more effectively.
• Watch our legal webinars, including an An Introduction to Open Source Software Licenses 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), as they discuss open source and the legal issues associated with its licenses.
• Read our whitepaper, Best Practices for Managing Software Intellectual Property in an Open Source World and use case, Managing Software Intellectual Property Compliance.
• Contact us for more information about our open source license management and open source governance solutions.