Re: What ist the Nessus Script Licence ?

On Donnerstag, 25. Oktober 2007, Jan-Oliver Wagner wrote:
> looking at the package nessus-plugins-2.2.10.tar.gz,
> in files scripts/debian_DSA*.nasl, there is cited the
> "Nessus Script Licence".
>
> My understanding is that, this refers to licenses/README.txt
> because there is no other file under licenses/ that matches
> directly.
>
> Now, the README.txt reads:
>
> | Nessus plugins are released under the following licenses :
> | 
> | - Every plugin copyrighted "Tenable Network Security" is released under
> | the terms of the Tenable License (Tenable_License.txt)
> | 
> | - The plugin os_fingerprint.nasl is released under a BSD-like license
> | (see os_fingerprint_license.txt)
> | 
> | - Every other plugin is released under the version 2 of the GNU General
> | Public License (GPLv2.txt)
>
> My understanding from this is that "Nessus Script Licence" for this
> released packages means "version 2 of the GNU General Public License".
>
> Can you confirm this?

just for the archive: there was no answer, even not off-list.

Since Tenable is usually strict with corporate IP, I take it my assumption is 
correct.


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