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A comment on Ask HN: How do you detect license infringement on closed source software?.

Re:Ask HN: How do you detect license infringement on closed ... by tobylane on Thursday August 09, 2018 @04:25PM (#17728145)
Bugs and symbols. There's a mac command line tool I can't remember the name of that pulls all the readable (and more) text from an application, this has been used to find out what made a closed source app (e.g. private iOS apis).
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Re:Ask HN: How do you detect license infringement on closed ... by blcArmadillo on Thursday August 09, 2018 @05:35PM (#17728721)
Is it maybe the strings utility: https://linux.die.net/man/1/strings?
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Re:Ask HN: How do you detect license infringement on closed ... by rl1987 on Saturday August 11, 2018 @03:22AM (#17738733)
There's also nm(1) and objdump(1).
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Re:Ask HN: How do you detect license infringement on closed ... by istumbler on Saturday August 11, 2018 @05:48PM (#17741753)
There are also tools which are platform specific. On macOS, for e.g., the Mach-O format can be disassembled by `otool`, for objective-c projects (and maybe Swift) you can use `class-dump`
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