Protecode was a private company based in

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Ottawa (, ; Canadian French: ) is the capital city of Canada. It is located at the confluence of the Ottawa River and the Rideau River in the southern portion of the province of Ontario. Ottawa borders Gatineau, Quebec, and forms the core ...

that provided

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and security management software used for software development license compliance. It was acquired by

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in November 2015 for undisclosed terms.

Products

Protecode Enterprise System is a suite of tools for managing

open source software Open-source software (OSS) is computer software that is released under a license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to use, study, change, and distribute the software and its source code to anyone and for any purpose. Open ...

licensing. Protecode utilizes a proprietary database of indexed public open source projects to compare against a software codebase in order to identify open source components and determine license obligations. The Protecode product suite produces a software inventory report, cross-referenced to licensing and copyright attributes, to indicate corresponding licensing obligations. Protecode also offers an audit service which can be used to produce an audit report, containing a software bill of materials and a license obligations report. Software audits are commonly requested prior to business transactions, like

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or financing. In 2013, Protecode announced a single seat open source management scanning tool.

Services

Protecode offers code auditing services to detect all open source and third party and associated licensing obligations before a product release or

Partnerships

Protecode is a member of IBM Partnerworld and System 4 received validation from IBM

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for

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and

IBM Rational ClearCase Rational ClearCase is a family of computer software tools that supports software configuration management (SCM) of source code and other software development assets. It also supports design-data management of electronic design artifacts, thus ena ...

. Protecode is available on

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. Protecode Library Auditor integrates with

Perforce Perforce, legally Perforce Software, Inc., is an American developer of software used for developing and running applications, including version control software, web-based repository management, developer collaboration, application lifecycle mana ...

. Protecode is a member of the

Linux Foundation The Linux Foundation (LF) is a non-profit technology consortium founded in 2000 as a merger between Open Source Development Labs and the Free Standards Group to standardize Linux, support its growth, and promote its commercial adoption. Additi ...

and a contributor to their Open Compliance Program. Protecode is also a supporter of the Linux Foundation sponsored

SPDX Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) is an open standard for software bill of materials (SBOM). SPDX allows the expression of components, licenses, copyrights, security references and other metadata relating to software. Its original purpose w ...

specification. Protecode is a member of the

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and the

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Awards

* In May 2010, Protecode was included in the “Cool Vendors in Intellectual Property, 2010” report by Gartner, Inc. * In 2009, The Branham Group included Protecode on its list of the Top 25 Canadian IT Up and Comers"Top 25 Canadian IT Up and Comers” - Branham Group
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