Protecode Enhances its Open Source Software Licensing Management Solutions

Protecode (News - Alert), a provider of comprehensive solutions for managing open source software licenses, announced that its suite of open source software license management solutions is now complete with the addition of new reporting capabilities, workflow enhancements, and integration with additional development platforms.

The company explained that it offers the Protecode System 4, a complete license management solution for all stages of the software development process. It enables users to manage open source and third party license compliance by providing a list of all open source components that exist in a software product along with a list of associated licenses, copyrights, and other software attributes.

The solution now has the ability to address all stages of a quality open source software adoption and management process, which begins by utilizing Protecode Enterprise Server for establishing policies and managing users and groups. With the newly integrated enhancements, one can use the solution to realize optimized identification of licensing and copyrights associated with the software components, encryption content, export control classification numbering, and security vulnerabilities.

Some of the notable features of the Protecode System 4 are: highly scalable, equally suited to small companies and large enterprises; manages third party and open source code attributes – licenses, copyrights, security vulnerabilities, export control, license obligations, encryption content, license compatibility; easy to adopt and use, with a small footprint and minimal infrastructure requirements; and more.

Officials with the company remarked that new capabilities in Protecode's System 4 simplify usage, and reduce manual effort involved in a structured open source software adoption process. Protecode is making it easy for organizations to leverage open source code by reducing their development efforts, increasing development velocity, and eliminating risks.