use cases
Checking AI-Written Code for Open Source It Reproduced
AI coding assistants write a lot of code now, and most of it is new: glue between your own functions and small helpers built for the problem in front of them. Now and …
Version 0.1, free and open source
Know where your code came from
Remixware finds code your project copied from open source, including code an AI assistant reproduced, and tells you which licence came with it and what that licence asks of you. See the GPL function in your MIT app, or the copyright line that got lost, before your code ships.
98%
Of planted copies of 100 tokens or more found, renamed and cut-down ones included
0
Copies traced to the wrong project, out of 2,880
0
False alarms in 99,198 lines of projects that weren't indexed
Apache 2.0
License for all of the code
Measured by planting copies of real open source functions in a test project and scanning it against 14 real projects, and by scanning 9 projects that weren't indexed. The test logs are on GitHub.
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explainers
Copied Code Brings Its Licence Along: What Open Source Licences Ask of You
Open source code is free to use, and it comes with conditions. Every open source project comes with a licence, and the licence is the deal: you may copy, change and share …
use cases
Getting Ready for a Code Audit Before a Sale or a Big Customer
Sooner or later someone outside the team asks what’s in your code. A company that wants to buy yours runs a scan as part of due diligence, or a large …
use cases
GPL 2 Firmware and the Apache Code That Cannot Go In
A lot of firmware is licensed under GPL version 2, because it’s built on Linux, BusyBox or U-Boot, and a lot of it says “version 2 only”. That choice …
testing
How Remixware Was Tested: 2880 Planted Copies of Real Open Source Code
A tool that says “this code was copied” has to be right in two directions. It has to find the copies, including the ones that were tidied up, renamed or cut …
sample reports
Sample Remixware Reports: An Online Shop, a Firmware Project and a Clean One
These are real reports from the test projects that come with Remixware, made by the same commands you’d run on your own code. The projects are small on purpose, so …
use cases
Stop GPL Code at the Pull Request: A Licence Check in CI
The cheapest moment to deal with copied code is before it merges. Once it ships, a GPL function in a closed product means a release to pull back and a rewrite under …
releases
The First Remixware Release Finds Copied Open Source Code and the Licence That Came With It
Code gets into a project from all over the place. Somebody pastes a function from a library they like, or an AI assistant writes a helper that looks a lot like one it saw …
use cases
Third-Party Notices Without the Spreadsheet
Most open source licences ask for one thing in return: keep the copyright line and the licence text with the code. For dependencies, package tools and app stores help …
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