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Black Duck Patented

It’s U.S. No 7,552,093 B2 and covers the widgetry at the heart of the Black Duck Suite
By Maureen O'Gara
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February 12, 2010 07:45 PM EST
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Black Duck Software, thought all along to be a patent abjurer, has gotten a software method patent on core technology that automatically resolves software license obligations and conflicts. It's U.S. No 7,552,093 B2 and covers the widgetry at the heart of the Black Duck Suite, a comprehensive management platform for controlling the use of open source in a multi-source development process. It lets Black Duck scan an organization's code base of open and closed-source software components using various licenses to determine which license obligations are in effect and which licenses obligations may be in conflict. The move sent an appalled Software Freedom Law Center into a repudiating swoon calling the patent "obvious."

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