Re: Bug#570621: Parsing output = derivative work?

[Walter Landry <wlandry@caltech.edu>]

Miriam Ruiz <miriam@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.

Cheers,
Walter Landry
wlandry@caltech.edu