moreaux@groucho (05/31/90)
I am in need of reference material and/or information concerning the area of software protection measures. My interest is concentrated on the technical side, rather than the legal issues or court cases. As part of my graduate work I am planning to devise some method of establishing ownership of code through the use of style, metrics, complexity, embedded code, etc as a fingerprinting type of technique. If such a beast can be devised, it will provide a springboard to legally defining code ownership. Thank you. /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ / \ / Don Moreaux \ / Department of Computer Science \ / College of Engineering \ / University of Idaho \ / Moscow, Idaho 83843 \ / \ / Voice: 208-885-6899 \ / Fax: 208-885-6645 \ / E-mail: moreaux@ted.cs.uidaho.edu \ / CompuServe: 72040,1755 \ / \ /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
warren@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Warren Harrison) (05/31/90)
In article <1990May31.051526.17185@groucho> moreaux@groucho.UUCP () writes: > >As part of my graduate work I am planning to >devise some method of establishing ownership of code through >the use of style, metrics, complexity, embedded code, etc as a >fingerprinting type of technique. If such a beast can be devised, >it will provide a springboard to legally defining code ownership. Software Science has been used for a first pass at plaguerism detection for years now. Karl Ottenstein did some work on this when he was at Purdue. I have heard of several schools that also do this. The last I heard, Karl was at Los Alamos Labs. In the Fall, a special issue of the Journal of SYstems and Software will include a paper about a plagiarism detection system. The author is Geoff Whale from a university in Australia (anyone have his e-mail address?). If you're really interested I'll see if I can dig up an address for him. Warren ========================================================================== Warren Harrison warren@cs.pdx.edu Department of Computer Science 503/725-3108 Portland State University