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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.
Featured: Intel Corporation
Find out how Intel Corporation, a leader in semiconductor manufacturing and software development, reduces software rework and mitigates business risk by using Black Duck Protex to validate that open source, 3rd party and internal software usage strictly adheres to Intel's software licensing policies.
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Featured: 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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Featured: Legal Webinar Series - Introduction to Open Source Software Licenses (60 minutes)
This Webinar, presented by Black Duck 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), covers the basics of open source, including open source definitions, different types of licenses, and the commonly used licenses.
Open source software has significant benefits and is free, but it is not free of obligations. Gartner Research recently found that 85 percent of companies currently use open source software, but governance and lack of policy is the #1 challenge faced by users. With over 1,400 different licenses available today, each with their own obligations, it can be difficult to properly manage the use of open source. Webinar attendees will learn the basics and advance their ability to reap the benefits of open source while managing the associated risks.
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Featured: Best Practices for Managing Software Intellectual Property in an Open Source World
This whitepaper draws on the experiences of the Black Duck Software team, our customers, and other industry experts to propose new approaches to managing intellectual property in this new world. It describes a set of Best Practices that companies can use to avoid the risks and gain the benefits of this promising new approach to software development.
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