Black Duck Software is a private company based in Burlington, Massachusetts, USA. Black Duck Software is a provider of consulting and software for enabling enterprise adoption of open source software (OSS). 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 was the 383rd largest software company in the world in September 2012, having grown its annualized sales over 30 percent for the preceding three years.
In 2011 Black Duck acquired the open source business strategy consulting company Olliance Group which organizes and manages the Open Source Think Tank conference on the commercial application of open source, mobile and cloud computing technologies.
Black Duck Software maintains a KnowledgeBase of open source and third party components - most of which are available on the Internet. 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, auditing and tracking of software components. Black Duck Software also maintains the open source search engine Ohloh Code, a free resource for software developers, and Ohloh.net, a free public directory of open source projects and contributors.
Black Duck Software maintains the Open Source Delivers industry blog on the adoption and enablement of OSS, and the Open Source Resource Center (OSRC).
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