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Open Hub or Black Duck Open Hub (formerly Ohloh) [2] is a website which provides a web services suite and online community platform that aims to index the open-source software development community. It was founded by former Microsoft managers Jason Allen and Scott Collison in 2004 and joined by the developer Robin Luckey.
Black Duck Software was a privately held company focused on automating the process of identifying and creating an inventory of open source code used in software applications, as well as detecting known security vulnerabilities and license compliance issues.
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He started and built Black Duck Software to address those issues. Today, the company’s products are the de facto standard for open source software security development and management – a mandatory check box for most app dev projects and software. Black Duck Software was acquired by Synopsys in 2017.
It enabled software developers to easily search and browse source code in thousands of projects posted at hundreds of open source repositories. On April 28, 2008, it was announced that Black Duck Software would acquire the Koders assets and technologies although the Koders website will remain as a free resource. [1]
Many FOSS software projects use a BSD license, for instance the BSD OS family (FreeBSD etc.), Google's Bionic or Toybox. As of 2015 the BSD 3-clause license ranked in popularity number five according to Black Duck Software [31] and sixth according to GitHub data. [32]
Appium won the 2014 Bossie award of InfoWorld for the best open source desktop and mobile software. [5] Appium was also selected as an Open Source Rookie of the Year by Black Duck Software. [6] [7] In October 2016, Appium joined the JS Foundation. [8] Initially as a mentor program, it graduated in August 2017. [2]
On 7 January 2011 Black Duck Software named the project one of its Open Source Rookies of 2010, for being "the privacy aware, personally controlled, do-it-all, open source social network". [43] In July 2011, Konrad Lawson, blogging for the Chronicle of Higher Education, suggested Diaspora as an alternative to Facebook and Google+. [44]