The fastest way is often to just run the "Strings" program on the software. Often it will dump out a bunch of strings that match those in the Open Source project: Error Messages, Logging messages, etc. Sometimes if they're really sloppy it'll spit out the name of the GPL program/library directly and a version number.
I often add magic arrays to my code. So.. if I find them in a binary blob...
Have there been any lawsuits involving breach of open source licences?
There are cases here where companies used GPL code without releasing their changes.
How do licenses of a source code check if the people using their code is complying with the license it uses?
https://www.reddit.com/r/embedded/comments/18gie6l/how_do_li...
The fastest way is often to just run the "Strings" program on the software. Often it will dump out a bunch of strings that match those in the Open Source project: Error Messages, Logging messages, etc. Sometimes if they're really sloppy it'll spit out the name of the GPL program/library directly and a version number.
I often add magic arrays to my code. So.. if I find them in a binary blob...
Have there been any lawsuits involving breach of open source licences?
https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/11452/have-th...