Open source licence violations manual published

Sleuth’s toolkit includes soldering instructions

Dutch software engineer Armijn Hemel has just published a manual on how to detect violations of open source software, The GPL Compliance Engineering Guide, here. It details how to take apart bootloaders and firmwares, using tools such as Hexdump, Strings and Grep.

A news item written for The Inquirer.net on 17 October 2008.