Detecting code copying at scale with Vendetect

Earlier this month, the maintainer of Cheating-Daddy discovered that a Y-Combinator-funded startup had copied their GPL-licensed codebase, stripped out the comments, and re-released it as “ Glass ” under an incompatible license. This isn’t an isolated incident; we see code theft and improper vendoring constantly during security assessments. So we built a tool to catch it automatically. Vendetect…