Automated software license analysis

Automated Software Engineering

Volumn 16, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 455-490

  Tuunanen, Timo ^a   Koskinen, Jussi ^a   Kärkkäinen, Tommi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

Open source software; Program comprehension; Reverse engineering; Software licenses; Software reuse

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED ANALYSIS; AUTOMATED APPROACH; NON-TRIVIAL; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; OPEN SOURCES; PROGRAM COMPREHENSION; REVERSE ENGINEERING TOOLS; SOFTWARE LICENSE; SOFTWARE LICENSES; SOFTWARE REUSE; SOURCE CODES;

AUTOMATION; OPEN SYSTEMS; REENGINEERING; REVERSE ENGINEERING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY;

EID: 68149155533     PISSN: 09288910     EISSN: 15737535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10515-009-0054-z     Document Type: Article

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