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 _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
