Ask HN: How do you detect license infringement on closed source software?

4 points by limonkufu 7 years ago | 5 comments

How can one check whether a closed source commercial software using an open source code while infringing the code's license?

jrpt 7 years ago |

Can you describe what you're trying to do better? Is it your open source code and you want to know who's using it? Or is it your closed source code and you want to know the licensing of everything you're using?

tobylane 7 years ago |

Bugs and symbols. There's a mac command line tool I can't remember the name of that pulls all the readable (and more) text from an application, this has been used to find out what made a closed source app (e.g. private iOS apis).

blcArmadillo 7 years ago | |

Is it maybe the strings utility: https://linux.die.net/man/1/strings?

rl1987 7 years ago | | |

There's also nm(1) and objdump(1).