On Wednesday, August 24, 2005 9:36 AM, Ron Gula wrote >> I also agree here - who cares where you get the executables, as long >> as you do the registration through the Nessus web site? This just >> doesn't make much sense to me. Is it supposed to limit technical >> support hassels by limiting the number of outdated binaries in the >> wild? Even if someone made an appliance, you'd still have to >> register on the Nessus web site, right? > > This is the core issue. Tenable does not grant the right for people to > bundle the plugin feed with their products. I can buy symantec > anti-virus for $39/year, but that does not give me the right to > bundle it and resell it in my own security package. Just because we > sell direct feeds and have registered feeds available to the public, > doesn't give them the right to re-sell it as their own product or > their own content. > > This may seem like a fine line here, but to Tenable there is a big > problem when someone puts Nessus and the Tenable plugins on an > appliance and calls it the 'Scanner Pro 9000'. (I made that up BTW) > Or even more interesting are larger companies who are including > Nessus in their router, switch, authentication, ids, sim, .etc system. > > Tenable does not have any formal agreements with any product vendors > who use Nessus in their solutions. > > Ron Gula, CTO > Tenable Network Security >
So the question originally asked hasn't really been answered. I am using the Nessus version that is maintained by Javier Fernandez-Sanguino for Debian GNU/Linux. The bundeled installation files are stored on Debian GNU/Linux servers and their mirrors for download. Javier's version installs preconfigured to pull from the GPL feed. However, I have registered with Tenable to get access to the Registered Feed. I must reconfigure my not downloaded from www.nessus.org and not compiled on my system version of Nessus to use the Registered Feed. Does this violate the licensing agreement I accepted when I registered for the Registered Feed? [Y/N]_ -Jason PS - I apologize in advance for the legal disclaimer at the bottom of my email message. This is tacked on by our SMTP gateway and I have no control over it. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Confidentiality notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient(s), or the employee or agent responsible for delivery of this message to the intended recipient(s), you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this e-mail message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please immediately notify the sender and delete this e-mail message from your computer. ============================================================================== _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [email protected] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
