# Collaborative Reverse Engineering · 2005-03-01
I am releasing the source for IDA Sync under the GPL license. IDA Sync is implemented as an IDA Pro plugin and stand alone server for the purpose of allowing multiple analysts to synchronize their reverse engineering efforts. IDA Sync is especially useful when speed reversing malware. This project has some quirks that need to be worked out still and is being released pre-production quality in hopes of getting some support from the open source community.
Metakit if you haven't heard of it is an extremely useful, lightweight and efficient embeddable database library. I use it in many of my internal projects, including IDA Sync which was released today. In the process of bundling IDA Sync, I found that the latest Python bindings are not compatible with Python 2.4. After some googling I still couldn't find the appropriate binding so I bit the bullet and did the compile myself. To save others the effort, I am making it available here.