Open-source code verification service goes freebie

NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: PHIL HOCHMUTH ON LINUX
10/26/05
Today's focus: Open-source code verification service goes
freebie

Dear security.world@gmail.com,

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* Black Duck offers up code verification software free of charge
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Today's focus: Open-source code verification service goes
freebie

By Phil Hochmuth

Black Duck Software, which provides a service for untangling the
licensing legalities in using various open-source software, said
last week that it would give away free access to its database
through the end of 2005.

The move is designed to boost interest in the small firm's
product offering, ProtexIP/OnDemand. The hosted service allows
application developers in enterprises and software companies
using open source to check their code against a broad database
of open-source licensing information.

Launched earlier this year
<http://www.networkworld.com/nllinux9350>, the service allows
users to have the open-source code they're using scanned to
determine what licenses may govern the use of that software. The
service can also check to see if users have blended together
chunks of open-source code that, by their license, cannot be put
together or even run on the same hardware.

The services covers more than 120 licenses, such as the GNU
General Public License; the Apache Public License; the Common
Development and Distribution License, used by Sun and Mozilla;
and Microsoft's Shared Source license.

The temporary free offer provides access to a service that
normally costs $2,500 for an annual subscription. The service,
according to Black Duck, does not involve moving code around.

"ProtexIP/OnDemand is a completely secure solution that leaves
users' source code safely behind their companies' firewall
during analysis," according to the vendor.

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