A sentence-matching method for automatic license identification of source code files

ASE'10 - Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 437-446

  German, Daniel M ^a   Manabe, Yuki ^b   Inoue, Katsuro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Automated license identification; Open source licenses; Software licenses

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED LICENSE IDENTIFICATION; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; FREE AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARES; IDENTIFICATION OF SOURCES; MATCHING ALGORITHM; MATCHING METHODS; OPEN SOURCE LICENSE; SOFTWARE LICENSE; SOURCE CODES;

AUTOMATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

OPEN SYSTEMS;

EID: 78649787041     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1858996.1859088     Document Type: Conference Paper

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