“Black Duck Software Inc. on Monday rolled out an on-demand service that allows developers and due diligence teams to examine software projects for open source code in order to make sure their licensing obligations are being met.

Called protexIP/OnDemand, the Internet-based service helps developers more quickly deal with compliance requirements related to intellectual property, which typically stem from things such as customer procurement, outsourced project validations, and internal compliance programs.

“Increasingly, businesses are being required to provide evidence that they are managing the origins of their software intellectual property. Consequently, development teams are being called on for in-depth compliance validations in support of specific business transactions,” said Doug Levin, Black Duck’s CEO.

“We think this sort of on-demand solution can deliver more in-depth information to these compliance teams,” he said.”

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