On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 10:35:46AM -0400, Ron Gula wrote:
> 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.
would it be an option if the license for the registered feed
requires any user interface and resulting report to have a clearly
visible hint that the Tool/Report uses the Registered Plugins
of Tenable Network Security?
Maybe make the Tenable, the Nessus or another Logo a requirement.
Perhaps for continuity the previous conditions could be kept for the 2.2
series.
This would even improve your needs, since with the current license
it would theoretically be possible to have a automatic
download&compile®ister process for a appliance.
At the same time, with an accordingly updated GTK client (logo or
whatever), it would be OK to use the standard Nessus package for
Debian, Fedora, SUSE, etc. etc. out-of-the-box.
Best
Jan
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