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Hound vs Black Duck: What are the differences?

What is Hound? A hosted service that comments on Ruby style guide violations in your GitHub pull requests. Take care of pesky code reviews with a trusty Hound. Hound reviews GitHub pull requests for style guide violations.

What is Black Duck? Open Source Security & License tracking. It is a solution that helps development teams manage risks that come with the use of open source. It gives you complete visibility into open source management, combining sophisticated, multi-factor open source detection capabilities with the Black Duck KnowledgeBase.

Hound and Black Duck can be primarily classified as "Code Review" tools.

Some of the features offered by Hound are:

  • Open source
  • Free for public repos
  • Automated reviews of GitHub pull requests for style guide violations

On the other hand, Black Duck provides the following key features:

  • License management
  • PDF protection
  • Trial license

Hound is an open source tool with 1.73K GitHub stars and 396 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Hound's open source repository on GitHub.

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    What is Black Duck?

    It is a solution that helps development teams manage risks that come with the use of open source. It gives you complete visibility into open source management, combining sophisticated, multi-factor open source detection capabilities with the Black Duck KnowledgeBase.

    What is Hound?

    Automated code review for GitHub pull requests. It comments on code quality and style issues, allowing you and your team to better review and maintain a clean codebase.

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