Code siblings: Technical and legal implications of copying code between applications

Proceedings of the 2009 6th IEEE International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories, MSR 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 81-90

  German, Daniel M ^a   Di Penta, Massimiliano ^b   Guéhéneuc, Yann Gaël ^c   Antoniol, Giuliano ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

^c ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Clone detection; Code licensing; Software evolution

Indexed keywords

CHANGE HISTORY; CLASSIFICATION ,; CLONE DETECTION; CODE CLONE; CODE LICENSING; FREEBSD; LEGAL IMPLICATIONS; SOFTWARE EVOLUTION; SOURCE CODES;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS;

CLONING;

EID: 70349912291     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MSR.2009.5069483     Document Type: Conference Paper

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