http://hp.sys-con.com/ Latest articles from Commentary Copyright 2008 HP DEVELOPER'S JOURNAL Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:27:00 GMT HP DEVELOPER'S JOURNAL 10 http://backend.userland.com/rss http://hp.sys-con.com/read/490782.htmhttp://hp.sys-con.com/read/490782.htm Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:30:00 GMT See, HP is open sourcing widgetry very much like theirs, widgetry that it developed for itself over the last seven years at the cost of 'millions of dollars,' it says, and 60 man-years work that sorts out the various licenses that govern open source software - imagine, there are 1,700 licenses in OpenOffice alone - and lets you know if said licenses have been tinkered with in any way. It calls it FOSSology and has made it available at FOSSology.org under the GPLv2. It's designed, it says, to address the acquisition, tracking and licensing of FOSS. It can detect code reuse and provenance even if the code has been changed.