-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 03/06/2011 11:51 PM, Josselin Mouette wrote: > 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. >
Thanks for CCing to debian-legal anyway, i'm really confused for this packages, but i'm open for input for a best solutions as i know, gnetworktester parsing nmap output by running nmap (see src/nmap.py). Any suggest? thanks before - -- [ Mahyuddin Susanto ] http://tripledin.wordpress.com/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iF4EAREIAAYFAk12NIMACgkQdr7GbwjmqKXa6gEAvBKeLR9Xv9N4pag+cHgDIHRR PYQcLEJhnwG1rm6zab8BANztIkFef+hdvdsucWs8XZNtEbcz70gn8b5VkYzBPTpG =7x4x -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d763486.4050...@ubuntu.com
