> Miriam Ruiz <mir...@debian.org> wrote: > > In general, I wouldn't consider parsing the output of another > > program to de a derivative work. > > In general, I do agree with Miriam that parsing the output of another > program does not make a derivative work. But just to give an example > of where it does happen, git is largely comprised of many small > utilities that communicate over pipes and command-line arguments.
It happens (to me) to be as simple as this: If the parsed program is susbtituted by a clone will the parsing program continue working? If the answer is yes, since it is absurd that the parsing program is a derivative work of all possible clones at the same time, then clearly it is not a derivative work. If the answer is no, then clearly the parsing program depends on the parsed one 'in an intimate way'. Can a clone or sucessor of nmap be used with gnetworktester? Regards Noel er Envite
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