Re: US ISPs become 'copyright cops' starting July 12

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On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 01:09:12PM -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> But is not the flip side more pertinent: how does one validate that
> closed source software is not using s/w in the OSS domain?

Simply put, you don't.  To get a look at it legitimately, you'll sign a
NDA, so you can't say what you see.  Steal and reveal, and you're guilty of
crime in your own right.

Oh, you can reverse engineer, look for strings in executables, etc., but
none of that's proof.

Cheers,
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	Dave Ihnat
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