CodeQL is based on an existing product from a company called Semmle which GitHub acquired in late 2019 [1] They have been part of GitHub for barely a year so i

CodeQL is based on an existing product from a company called Semmle which GitHub acquired in late 2019 [1] They have been part of GitHub for barely a year so it's not too surprising, especially given they are continuing to support the product for the enterprise customers they had previously not just GitHub. [1] https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/18/github-acquires-code-analysis-tool-semmle/ https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/18/github-acquires-code-analy...