About This Site

IPIngredients.org is a web site devoted to providing information about the need for and benefits of intellectual property (IP) transparency in the software development process. We want to encourage all software development vendors (corporations/individuals, for-profit/non-profit, and commercial/open source) to actively acknowledge the third-party code and licenses they have in their own code bases. Similar to the idea of requiring food manufacturers to provide consumers with information on ingredients and nutritional information in packaged foods, IPIngredients.org calls for software manufacturers to provide the market with technical and legal information about their code.

Providing IP labels for software products can be difficult. It requires software vendors to be confident in the integrity of their products. But by empowering customers, partners, and investors with knowledge, vendors instill confidence and faith in their technology and companies.

This site is sponsored by Palamida, Inc., a commercial software company dedicated to providing software and services for IP integrity management. For more information about Palamida, please visit www.palamida.com, and for a list of Palamida’s IP Ingredients, go to www.palamida.com/products/ipamp/ingredients.