Black Duck Software announced a substantial expansion to the volume of open source software managed in the Koders.com code search engine. Koders.com now contains 15 percent more code through the addition of C and C++ code governed by open source and other licenses. The addition will enhance Koders’ position as the search engine of choice for developers looking for reusable open source code, methods, examples and algorithms.

Black Duck acquired Koders in April 2008 and has worked to enhance it for the benefit of the more than 30,000 individual developers and software-centric organizations that rely on the search engine every day. Koders complements Black Duck’s family of solutions, which together save customers time and money by helping development teams find, properly use and manage open source software.

The additional code now accessible through Koders comes from the acquisition of the assets of csourcesearch.net, the website devoted to locating and continuously updating information about the thousands of open source packages—including communications tools, games, desktop environments, software development libraries, plugins and utilities—written in C or C++. The languages are particularly important to developers of embedded software or firmware used by the consumer device and embedded systems industries. Examples of projects that are widely used by embedded developers and that are now available through Koders include GeeXboX, a Linux distribution that acts as a stand-alone media player, and lm_sensors, which offers essential tools for monitoring hardware health.

“When we acquired Koders, our promise to that community of users and to Black Duck customers was that we’d make searches even more productive and valuable, and this is a very tangible step in that direction,” said Douglas Levin, Black Duck’s founder and CEO. “We’re also working to augment Koders with code and metadata from the Black Duck KnowledgeBase—the most comprehensive database of information on open source software containing literally tens of billions of lines of code. Koders returns the highest quality code search results of any tool today. When used with other Black Duck offerings—Code Center for finding, tracking and selecting open source and Protex for validation and compliance—customers benefit from the most complete solution for incorporating open source into the software development lifecycle.”