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<h2>Bradley M. Kuhn - President</h2>
 

	
 
<p><a href="http://ebb.org/bkuhn/">Bradley M. Kuhn</a> is the President and
 
Distinguished Technologist at <a href="http://sfconservancy.org/">Software
 
Freedom Conservancy</a> and on the Board of Directors of the <a
 
Distinguished Technologist at Software
 
Freedom Conservancy and on the Board of Directors of the <a
 
href="http://fsf.org/">Free Software Foundation (FSF)</a>. Kuhn began his
 
work in the software freedom movement as a volunteer in 1992, when he became
 
an early adopter of the GNU/Linux operating system, and began contributing to
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<h2>Bradley M. Kuhn - President and Distinguished Technologist</h2>
 
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<p><a href="http://ebb.org/bkuhn/">Bradley M. Kuhn</a> is the President and
 
Distinguished Technologist at <a href="http://sfconservancy.org/">Software
 
Freedom Conservancy</a> and on the Board of Directors of the <a
 
Distinguished Technologist at Software
 
Freedom Conservancy and on the Board of Directors of the <a
 
href="http://fsf.org/">Free Software Foundation (FSF)</a>. Kuhn began his
 
work in the software freedom movement as a volunteer in 1992, when he became
 
an early adopter of the GNU/Linux operating system, and began contributing to
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@@ -106,14 +106,14 @@ Conservancy should contact <a href="mailto:debian-services@sfconservancy.org">&l
 
<p>However, the Guide is admittedly a large document, so for those who are
 
  interested in a short summary of describing how Conservancy handles GPL
 
  enforcement and compliance
 
  work, <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2012/feb/01/gpl-enforcement/">this
 
  work, <a href="/blog/2012/feb/01/gpl-enforcement/">this
 
  blog post outlining the compliance process</a> is likely the best source.</p>
 

	
 
<h2>Reporting GPL Violations To Us</h2>
 

	
 
<p>If you are aware of a license violation or compliance issue regarding
 
  Debian, Linux, or
 
  any <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/members/current/">Conservancy member
 
  any <a href="/members/current/">Conservancy member
 
  project</a> (&mdash; in particular BusyBox, Evergreen, Inkscape, Mercurial,
 
  Samba, Sugar Labs, or Wine),
 
  please <a href="mailto:compliance@sfconservancy.org">contact us by email at
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<h1 id="contribution-and-similarity-analysis-of-christoph-hellwigs-linux-code-as-found-in-vmware-esxi-5.5">Contribution and Similarity Analysis of Christoph Hellwig's Linux Code as found in VMware ESXi 5.5</h1>
 
<p>This analysis verifies by reproducible analysis a set of specific contributions that are clearly made by Christoph Hellwig to Linux, and shows how those contributions appear in the VMware ESXi 5.5 product.</p>
 
<p>This analysis was prepared and written by <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/about/staff/#bkuhn">Bradley M. Kuhn</a>.</p>
 
<p>This analysis was prepared and written by <a href="/about/staff/#bkuhn">Bradley M. Kuhn</a>.</p>
 
<h1 id="understanding-code-similarity-and-cloning">Understanding Code Similarity and &quot;Cloning&quot;</h1>
 
<p>Software is often modified in various ways; indeed, Linux developers form a community that encourages and enables modification by many parties. Given this development model, communities often find it valuable to determine when software source code moves from one place to another with only minor modifications. Various scientifically-vetted techniques can be used to identify &quot;clones&quot; -- a portion of code that is substantially similar to pre-existing source code. The specific area of academic research is called &quot;code cloning detection&quot; or &quot;code duplication detection&quot;. The area has been under active research since the mid-1990s <a href="#fn1" class="footnoteRef" id="fnref1"><sup>1</sup></a>. In 2002, Japanese researchers published a tool called CCFinder <a href="#fn2" class="footnoteRef" id="fnref2"><sup>2</sup></a>, which, in its updated incarnation (called CCFinderX), is widely used and referenced by academic researchers in the field <a href="#fn3" class="footnoteRef" id="fnref3"><sup>3</sup></a> and has specifically been used to explore reuses of code in GPL'd software such as Linux <a href="#fn4" class="footnoteRef" id="fnref4"><sup>4</sup></a>.</p>
 
<p>CCFinderX uses a token-based clone detection method and a suffix-tree matching algorithm; both techniques have been highly vetted and considered in the academic literature. The techniques are considered viable and useful in detecting clones. Many academic papers on the subject have been peer-reviewed and published, and nearly every newly published paper compares its new techniques of clone detection to the seminal results found by CCFinderX. For purposes of our analysis, we have therefore chosen to use CCFinderX. These results can be easily reproduced since CCFinderX is, itself, also Open Source software.</p>
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    we <a href="/news/2016/aug/09/vmware-appeal/">announced that Christoph
 
    would appeal the lower court's ruling</a>.</p>
 
    Support Conservancy's and Christoph's efforts in this area
 
    by <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/supporter/">becoming a Conservancy
 
    by <a href="/supporter/">becoming a Conservancy
 
    supporter</a> or <a href="#donate-box" class="donate-now">donating via
 
    the link on the right</a>.</em></p>
 

	
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  that corrects these flaws.</p>
 

	
 
<p>Finally, Conservancy's mission (as stated
 
on <a href="http://sfconservancy.org/docs/conservancy_Form-1023.pdf">our Form
 
on <a href="/docs/conservancy_Form-1023.pdf">our Form
 
1023 with the USA IRS</a>) includes producing Open Source and Free Software.
 
Thus, this project is a great way to pursue Conservancy's mission and address a
 
specific need that so many NPOs (including us) have.  If no one steps up to create Free Software to replace the widely used
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@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ education around that mission.  We form partnerships across our
 
communities to work more effectively.  Check out <a 
 
href="https://copyleft.org/">copyleft.org</a>
 
or sign up to join the <a 
 
href="http://sfconservancy.org/news/2014/aug/12/tax-exempt-working-group/">
 
href="/news/2014/aug/12/tax-exempt-working-group/">
 
tax exempt working group</a>.</li>
 

	
 
<li>we seek to solve problems for the public through free and open 
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