Black Duck has extended its partnership with SourceForge, in a deal aimed at increasing the efficiency with which Black Duck tracks open source software. Black Duck will gain a local copy of Sourceforge's software repository, enabling it to track open source software changes more closely, the companies say.

Last month, the companies shipped a combined product called SourceForge Enterprise Edition that integrates SourceForge's distributed development tools with Black Duck's license management software.

According to Black Duck, a local repository of SourceForge's 103,000 open source projects will enable Black Duck's ProtexIP service to identify newly released open source software immediately. It will also improve the web update feature of the company's subscription-based KnowledgeBase product, it says.

Black Duck launched its compliance management tools last spring. Since then, at least one other company — Palamida — has entered the fledgling market for compliance management tools. Such tools are often aimed at companies using open source in embedded product designs, where a disproportionately high percentage of alleged GPL license violations seem to occur.

Black Duck CEO Doug Levin said, “By partnering with SourceForge.net we can help businesses to safely expand their use of software from the world's largest open source repository, and assure that our software compliance KnowledgeBase remains the most comprehensive in the industry.”

Additional details are available in an eWEEK story by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, available here.

 
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