Le dimanche 06 mars 2011 à 12:04 +0100, W. Martin Borgert a écrit : > (out of curiosity moved to debian-legal) > > On 2011-03-05 23:46, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: > > gnetworktester seems to parse the output of nmap and nmap upstream at > > http://insecure.org/nmap/data/COPYING gives me the impression that > > gnetworktester would thus be "derivative work". > > IANAL, but since when parsing the output of another program > constitutes a derivative work?
The distinction between a derivative work and a separate work is not based on technology but on functionality. Parsing the output of a program doesn’t make a derivative work. However, if this parsing is vital for the operation of the application and makes it useless without that program, what is the difference with dynamic linking to a library? To a programmer, there might be one, but to a court, there wouldn’t be any. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' “If you behave this way because you are blackmailed by someone, `- […] I will see what I can do for you.” -- Jörg Schilling
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