IANAL and I'm not saying this works from a legal standpoint (my understanding is it depends), I'm just arguing this is one reason why people might do this (run

IANAL and I'm not saying this works from a legal standpoint (my understanding is it depends), I'm just arguing this is one reason why people might do this (run an executable and parse the output instead of just linking a library and passing proper data structures). I've seen it happen in another context.