Comment on Monit's DMCA takedown notice for InspeqtorparentComments−gamache11yThe Monit licence (Affero GPL) requires that the copyright notice be retained in derivative works, so the question is whether a from-scratch implementation of a tool heavily influenced by Monit, is itself a derivative work of Monit.−mentat11yYou can't make that claim without then undermining the licenses of many / most GNU software implementations, even say GCC.
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The Monit licence (Affero GPL) requires that the copyright notice be retained in derivative works, so the question is whether a from-scratch implementation of a tool heavily influenced by Monit, is itself a derivative work of Monit.
You can't make that claim without then undermining the licenses of many / most GNU software implementations, even say GCC.