"Binary analysis" license compliance tool released

[Development] Posted Apr 15, 2010 16:31 UTC (Thu) by corbet

Armijn Hemel and Shane Coughlan, who have written about license compliance on LWN, have released a version of the tool they use to look for GPL-licensed software in device firmware. The Binary Analysis Tool digs through binary blobs and attempts to identify the software contained therein. "One advanced feature of the tool is users can build a customized knowledgebase. This can contain information about products and/or code like upstream suppliers, chip-sets, offsets, file systems and application strings. The tool can read the knowledgebase, open compiled code, and check if the specified data is included."

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