AFP — access to source code may violate intellectual property rights

8. Another characteristic of delivered solutions is to use middleware or “vendor supplied code.” In both of these cases, access to source code may violate intellectual property rights rendering access and then counts, impossible. This situation may further compound the effects of the “multiple languages” when present

This is a problem for any automated analysis of application source code whether for sizing, quality, or productivity. In this case code is analyzed up to the interface, since this is the part of the system on which effort will be spent. This is a problem to be handled in the contracts, not the specs.
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