Comment Re:new method of detecting GPL violations (Score 1) 445
As stated by someone in the comments section of this article, the method is old ( http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=279 761&cid=20356633 ).
The method has not been validated against a big database of programs. I would like to see this technique find one program in a database of 1000 programs.
An alternative approach might be:
(From the Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM 2007) conference)
"Fast Approximate Matching of Programs for Protecting Libre/Open Source Software by Using Spatial Indexes"
http://www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/staff/zheng/scam/scam2007 /papers/37.pdf
The method has not been validated against a big database of programs. I would like to see this technique find one program in a database of 1000 programs.
An alternative approach might be:
(From the Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM 2007) conference)
"Fast Approximate Matching of Programs for Protecting Libre/Open Source Software by Using Spatial Indexes"
http://www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/staff/zheng/scam/scam200
