Re:When Your Former Boss Sues You for Starting a Startup
by nness on Tuesday September 22, 2015 @08:23PM
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Lexicographic analysis, I think it's called. Back at university, they would run checks against the byte-code (Java, woo) to find people who were sharing their source. Caught a few people out in the earlier years who thought changing variable names was enough to avoid plagiarism.
There are tools that will detect source code with similar but not identical structure.