Hewlett-Packard has been one of those companies who use open source code. They still wanted to know what licenses governed the code it was bringing in-house. So they decided to produce a tool that could identify the licenses. Instead of just visiting a project’s site to see the licenses present on it, it analyze the code itself, identify the declared licenses and then look for key phrases that designate other licenses were in use as well. This tool is being stretched into a multi tool framework, dubbed as “Fossology,” or instruments for studying free and open source software (FOSS). Earlier this year, HP created its code-analysis tool as to focus on an open source project to expand its capabilities.