Channels ▼  Open Source  Open Source Code Detection For Cut and
Paste Carelessness  Open source development shops looking to
tighten up license and copyright compliance in commercial
deployment environments now have a new free source code scanner
option in the form of JNinka from White Source.  Based on the
Ninka algorithm and offered under the AGPL license, JNinka
exists as a means of tracking open source components throughout
software development lifecycles that may harbor open source code
hidden within a team's own proprietary code.  NOTE: Ninka is a
lightweight license identification tool for source code. It is
sentence-based and provides a simple way to identify open source
licenses in a source code file. It is capable of identifying
several dozen different licenses (and their variations).  Scans
are run locally for security reasons and the results can be
imported into the company's own cloud-based open source
lifecycle management service, to be managed alongside other open
source components. Its makers