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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: 3-Part Podcast Series
Join Doug Levin, founder 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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Featured: Managing Open Source: Best Practices (60 minutes) - Recorded Oct '08
By Hal Hearst, Senior Director of Professional Services
A recent increase in legal actions has raised industry awareness that open source code must be managed in compliance with applicable software licenses. Leading development organizations are establishing policies around open source usage and implementing engineering development processes which insure that software products remain in compliance. Join Black Duck Software for a review of industry best practices around the managed use of open source code.
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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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