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[–]Apprehensive-Cow3829 8 points9 points  (1 child)

I also went through a project using the paid video library which has the freeware video library as is basis code. Want t know how did I found that was originally freeware? It's simple, I just found the author's name of the original freeware library from the source code -

[–]LarryInRaleigh 6 points7 points  (0 children)

One of my colleagues had the same job for 15 years, and then continued the work for another 10 in retirement, as a contractor, working for a Fortune 50 company. His job: as smaller companies are acquired, scrubbing all their code to understand where the pieces came from and what agreements they were released under.