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 …
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Open Source Licences
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 …
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 …