is there any working/real open source Plagiarism checker available?

plagiarism-detection
Seyed Vahid Hashemi picture Seyed Vahid Hashemi · Dec 19, 2011 · Viewed 10.8k times · Source

I want to develop a plagiarism checker for checking several source codes but I couldn't find any proper source code or even a resource to get an idea about it. I have checked the Boss2 which is useless. they claim that they use Sherlock module for detecting plagiarism but it seems there is no such tools included in boss2.

if any open source detection tool is available for checking source code please let me know. regards

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Norman Ramsey picture Norman Ramsey · Sep 17, 2012

I'm aware of open-source plagiarism detectors for text (e.g., WCopyFind), but not code.

I couldn't find... even a resource to get an idea about it.

The authors of the excellent closed-source tool MOSS have published a helpful paper about the technology.

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