Le mercredi 09 mars 2011 à 11:27 +0000, Noel David Torres Taño a écrit : > > Miriam Ruiz <mir...@debian.org> wrote: > > 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 shared library is substituted by a clone reimplementing the same API/ABI, will the program linking to it 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? I agree that if such clone exists (and that holds for libraries too), it is not a derivative work. Nothing specific to parsing the output of another program here. -- .''`. : :' : “You would need to ask a lawyer if you don't know `. `' that a handshake of course makes a valid contract.” `- -- J???rg Schilling -- 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/1299680294.21760.94.camel@meh
