On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 01:11:01PM +0200, Dominik George wrote: > Looking at it as code, it is a 16-bit DOS Hello world-program. Not > copyrightable, I suppose.
I do not want EICAR to be copywritable, but I reckon it probably is. A surprising amount of work went into developing EICAR: it's a valid 16 bit DOS program as you point out, it's also composed entirely of printable characters and uses self-modification to ensure it does something useful when actually executed. As such it's clearly a creative work, and an original creation at that. Mark H has done a fair bit of work in this area.¹ ¹ <http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/07/msg00170.html> I'm now considering, tongue slightly in cheek, whether to add EICAR support to game-data-packager. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131016132818.ga23...@bryant.redmars.org
