This library is a fork of George Notaras' python-ping library, which is
an implementation of the standard ICMP ping in pure Python.

As it uses raw ICMP sockets, you need to be root to use the functions
exported by the ping module.

The fork by Pierre Bourdon adds a setup.py file in order to permit an
easier distribution of the package. 

This new fork by Joan-Luc Labòrda has made a portage to Python3. The
license of the library remains unchanged (GPLv2), see COPYING.