Hello all,
Over the past year I've developed a sizable software package in collaboration with a few others, that we now want to license properly (lawyers, valorisation and everything). For this to work though we need to be sure no-one inadvertently supplied code licensed elsewhere, for instance by copy-pasting snippets from Open Source frameworks.
I was wondering if theres a package/server that can compare our code base to a (granted large) reference of available licensed software (GPL, MIT, Non-OSI, etc..), to find and highlight instances of licensed code used in our software.
Someone previously directed me towards
- Black Duck ( http://blackducksoftware.com/code-sight/download ) &
- Fossology ( http://www.fossology.com/ )
but these seem targeted to making one's own code base searchable and finding copyright notices currently present in source files, not to find snippets copy-pasted from elsewhere.
Does anyone know of such a solution?
PS: We already know which libraries we use and depend on, and what their terms and licenses are, so I'm specifically not asking for any analysis on that part: we have that covered.