Re: Bug#726393: general: Possible malware infections in source packages
On Wed, 16 Oct 2013 12:59:33 +0200, Dominik George <nik@naturalnet.de>
wrote:
>Marc Haber <mh+debian-devel@zugschlus.de> schrieb:
>>On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 13:19:38 +0200, "Thijs Kinkhorst"
>><thijs@debian.org> wrote:
>>>I'm missing why the package cannot use the EICAR test virus signature
>>for
>>>its purposes.
>>
>>eicar.com does not have a distributable license.
>
>
>I do not think it is actually copyrightable software. It is a string that was agreed in to trigger antivirus scanners, so it is more or less a protocol. Consider the downloads at eicar.com reference implementations.
>
>TINLA, IANAL.
Obviously. German copyright law was changed in the 1990ies to
explicitly include even the most trivial programming work ("kleine
Münze").
Eicar.com is undoubtedly programming work, and given it being short, a
working DOS program _and_ printable at the same time I do not have any
doubt that the program would pass as a "Schöpfung" in a court of law.
Maybe even as a work of art instead of a work of programming.
Greetings
Marc
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