The Open-Source Detector 340
McDutchie writes "With open-source related lawsuits on the rise, a
market is developing for automated tools that detect the presence of open-source code within larger
application development environments.
Palamida Inc.
stepped in with IP Amplifier 3.0,
essentially a search tool and a database that consists of more than 38 million
of the most commonly used open-source files. Something Google-inspired called
CodeRank is claimed to match code against the database. Hmm...
maybe
someone should run it on
this,
or even
this." Of course, some open source code is perfectly welcome in commercial software, even if that software's code is not itself open; it's no secret or surprise that Microsoft, for instance, has taken advantage in some products of BSD-licensed code.
Isn't that (Score:1, Funny)
Email from the net nazis (Score:0, Funny)
Please remove them.
Re:Bah... humbug. (Score:3, Funny)
This is so that you can detect OS code in your own source code. Presumably if you're managing a commercial software company you'd want to know if your developers have simply been copying code from some OS project.
It can do binaries too if you actually read the thing.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have some code I need to obfuscate
Compare with "grep" (Score:0, Funny)
Re:DLL encryption will render this ineffective (Score:5, Funny)
Muscle memory?