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Abstract
This thesis is concerned with software plagiarism. Specifically the maine contribution is the suggestion od a framework for understanding of both technical and logical consequences of similarity in software code. The thesis argues that in case of disputes, finding a correlation between the source code files for two different programs does not necessarily mean that an illicit behavior has occured. Ideas, concepts, facts, processes and methods are not in themthelves protected by copyright law. Therefore, not everything in software is subject to copyright or patent protection. It is possible to write software that is not protected by either. Towards building an investigaation framewark for software palgiarism, it was necessary to specify the part of the software protected by law as an intellectual property, and build a reliable plagiarism detection system.