Protecode was a private company based in

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Ottawa is the capital city of Canada. It is located in the southern Ontario, southern portion of the province of Ontario, at the confluence of the Ottawa River and the Rideau River. Ottawa borders Gatineau, Gatineau, Quebec, and forms the cor ...

that provided

open source license Open-source licenses are software licenses that allow content to be used, modified, and shared. They facilitate free and open-source software (FOSS) development. Intellectual property (IP) laws restrict the modification and sharing of creative ...

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

Synopsys Synopsys, Inc. is an American electronic design automation (EDA) company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, that focuses on silicon design and verification, silicon intellectual property and software security and quality. Synopsys sup ...

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 Software, computer software that is released under a Open-source license, license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to use, study, change, and Software distribution, distribute the software an ...

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. 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

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Partnerships

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

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for IBM Rational Team Concert and

IBM Rational ClearCase IBM DevOps Code ClearCase (also known as IBM 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 manage ...

. Protecode is available on IBM SmartCloud. Protecode Library Auditor integrates with

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. Protecode is a member of the

Linux Foundation The Linux Foundation (LF) is a non-profit organization established in 2000 to support Linux development and open-source software projects. Background The Linux Foundation started as Open Source Development Labs in 2000 to standardize and prom ...

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

SPDX System Package Data Exchange (SPDX, formerly Software Package Data Exchange) is an open standard capable of representing systems with digital components as bills of materials (BOMs). First designed to describe software components, SPDX can descr ...

specification. Protecode is a member of the

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and the GENIVI Alliance

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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