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From: moreaux@groucho
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Software Theft and Protection
Message-ID: <1990May31.051526.17185@groucho>
Date: 31 May 90 05:15:26 GMT
Reply-To: moreaux@groucho.UUCP ()
Organization: University of Idaho, Moscow
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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.


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