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Paris-based code botherer CAST Software said today it would buddy up with Software Heritage to tackle the sometimes tricky task of identifying the provenance of open-source code in modern projects. The Register spoke to CAST Software CEO Vincent Delaroche, who told us the aim of the collaboration was to create a "Provenance …

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  1. iron Silver badge

    There are other services that do this for less and they aren't rate limited due to beta either.

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  2. Anonymous Coward
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    Yet more open-source litigation FUD

    ‘"At-risk" components are then automatically flagged and suggestions made on what to do, giving users an opportunity to head off potential legal, IP and compliance nasties before the code seeps out into the hands of users and lawyers.’

    Show us where a commercial entity was successfully sued by a third party for using Open Source in their business. Once you download the Source Code you accept the terms of the license. That is the sum total required in regards to your compliance. Anything else is open-source FUD.

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    1. big_D Silver badge
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      Re: Yet more open-source litigation FUD

      And all the companies that got sued for using GNU/Linux at the beginning of the Century, because it also breached patents and included proprietary code?

      A fair few companies settled, many for 6 figures, some for 7. It is rare these days, but not unheard of.

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        Re: Yet more open-source litigation FUD

        @big_D: “And all the companies that got sued for using GNU/Linux at the beginning of the Century, because it also breached patents and included proprietary code? A fair few companies settled, many for 6 figures, some for 7. It is rare these days, but not unheard of.”

        What were the names of these companies and the specific breach they were successfully sued over? Besides, two cases of software litigation that come to mind that don't involve open-source/Open Source are Oracle and Microsoft who both claim to ‘own’ Android. Oracle is suing Google and Microsoft is extracting a fee from the hardware manufacturers for each handset sold. Besides all of this, I thought SCO owned all of Linux. do you remember SCO sent out a letter to all fortune 1000 companies claiming a fee, whatever became of that case?

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