hi all, we were maintaining an MS Access application. Person who actually developed the application used copyrighted code. Now we want to remove that code and re-write that logic. Problem is we dont know what is the copyrighted code and what is not.
Is there any way or tool that can be used to scan through the existing code and flag the code that was directly got from internet and used?
Thanks in advance.
A lot of the time, if someone posts code on the web, they will include comments indicating that it has restrictions on use or copyrights. You could use the Find feature in the VBE to search for words like copyright, restricted use, etc.
If the developer who did the copying in the first place didn't include those comments and didn't add any comments of his or her own, there's really no easy way to tell what is copyrighted code and what is not. About the only way I could think of to do this would be to take a code snippet that you suspect is copyrighted and Google part of it.