Re: Nessus News (2.2.1 / Plugin Feed / New WebSite)

On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 09:21:04AM -0500, Renaud Deraison wrote:

> > What makes the difference between GPL and non-GPL plugins?
>
> egrep -L "script_copyright.*Tenable Network Security".
>
> In other words, all the plugins are under the GPL, except the ones
> written by Tenable.

How we were expected to know that (before we were told last week)?

I can't find anything related in my copy of Nessus other than file
COPYING in nessus-plugins-2.0.12.tar.gz which contains GPLv2.

I'm also searching through the old version of www.nessus.org
(http://web.archive.org/web/20040102074720/http://www.nessus.org/) and
all I can find is ...

   ``The "Nessus" Project aims to provide to the internet
   community a free, powerful, up-to-date and easy to use remote
   security scanner.''

... with the word _free_ being a hyperlink to
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html and word _up-to-date_ link
to all plugins (distributed in a single package, containg GPLv2
COPYING file).

I know Tenable has the right to publish it's own copyrighted work
under any licence they want, but *this* way of doing it resembles
Microsoft's "embrace and extend" strategy.

Martin Mačok
IT Security Consultant
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