Blackduck Software and IP

[Bill McGonigle]

On 2009-01-15 5:36 PM, Paul Lussier wrote:
> BlackDuck (i.e. specifically my friend) has spent months painstakingly
> researching each and every package for Debian (and probably RH,
> others) and created a database correlating versions with packages with
> licenses, etc.  Additionally, they've created checksums of everything
> such that they can scan large repositories and detect these signatures
> to help you determine if what your shipping falls under certain
> licenses.
>
> They are in fact a legit company, consisting of people who hold FOSS
> very near and dear.  They have just found a way to monetize a service
> around FOSS as well.

Sweet, and somebody posted a site here recently that did something 
similar, perhaps it was theirs? (you could upload a code sample and it 
would correlate with its repository).

Are they fixing the debs too?

-Bill

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