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Re:When Your Former Boss Sues You for Starting a Startup by tlrobinson on Tuesday September 22, 2015 @07:55PM (#10262546)
"source code that has been copied verbatim."

There are tools that will detect source code with similar but not identical structure.

Re:When Your Former Boss Sues You for Starting a Startup by nness on Tuesday September 22, 2015 @08:23PM (#10262627)
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.