Code siblings: Technical and legal implications of copying code between applications

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• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  IEEE International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories

• Publication date

  2009-05-16

• Fields of study

  Law, Computer Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1109/MSR.2009.5069483
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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