“The move toward component-based development and the exploding use of open source software have made it increasingly difficult for developers to attest to the origins and obligations associated with their mixed-IP software projects,” said Palle Pedersen, CTO of Black Duck Software. “By integrating our protexIP system with the Eclipse Platform, we help make the developer’s life easier by managing this complexity to avoid costly IP-related product delays and accelerate the software development process.”

Black Duck’s protexIP software compliance management system brings developers, lawyers, and business decision-makers together within an automated system that lets development teams identify and control what components are used within their code base and automate the compliance process across their organization to support business policies.

Eclipse is a platform for tool integration built by an extensive, open community of tool providers. Operating under an open source paradigm with a common public license that provides royalty free source code and worldwide redistribution rights, the Eclipse Platform provides tool developers with ultimate flexibility and control over their software technology. Eclipse provides a plug-in based framework that makes it easier to create, integrate and utilize software tools, saving time and money. Black Duck is using this framework to provide a protexIP plug-in to enable tool integration.

The protexIP Eclipse Plug-in The protexIP Eclipse plug-in lets developers associate an Eclipse development project with a protexIP analysis project and perform automated code analysis and management tasks. The plug-in provides an easy tie-in to the protexIP Web-based application and server so users can perform their work seamlessly.

When users build their code within Eclipse, the protexIP Eclipse plug-in can now inspect it for software that may have originated from other sources before, during, and after compilation. After automatically identifying the code, protexIP presents licensing information through on-screen summaries and reports about obligations and conflicts which can then be evaluated and remediated by the assigned team members.

By using protexIP with the Eclipse platform, developers can automate key intellectual property (IP) management and license compliance functions. The protexIP plug-in makes license compliance -- a critical facet of open source and component reuse -- an integral part of the software development process, rather than an afterthought.

Available Now The protexIP Eclipse plug-in is available now from Black Duck Software as part of the latest protexIP/development system. Please visit www.blackducksoftware.com or call +1-781-891-5100 x450 for details.

The Eclipse Platform is available from the Eclipse Foundation, a non-profit corporation formed to advance the creation, evolution, promotion, and support of the Eclipse Platform and to cultivate both an open source community and an ecosystem of complementary products, capabilities, and services. Full details of Eclipse and the Eclipse Foundation are available at www.eclipse.org

About Black Duck Software Black Duck Software™ is the leading provider of automated software compliance management solutions that help companies govern how software assets are created, managed, and licensed. Black Duck's offerings help businesses take maximum advantage of open source software while at the same time assure they satisfy the obligations associated with the code they use. Black Duck’s customer base includes enterprises, product developers, outsourcers, law firms and other organizations worldwide that are concerned with protection of software intellectual property. For more information about Black Duck, visit www.blackducksoftware.com.