Kost,

On Freitag, 26. September 2008, Vlatko Kosturjak wrote:
> I just got in contact with David Maciejak (old GPL nasl plugin writter).
> He told me we can use all the scripts authored/written by him in nessus
> feed under GNU GPL v2 license.
> 
> I took the scripts from him and other free scripts and made compilation
> of the gpl feed what we can use on:
> http://www.linux.hr/openvas/feed/
> 
> Description of the directories there:
> 
> gpl: these scripts are probably working and are GPL, there is few
> scripts by Arboi were he says "GPL..." after his copyright notice, so I
> guess it is released under GPL.

from the whole given context we can assume GNU General Public License v2
is meant.

I'd say you check the scripts into SVN.
 
> arboi-blah-blah: not sure if they are GPL, because it says: GPL, blah,
> blah...anyone knows what that means? :)

I've seen this in various places. Again we can assume GNU General
Public License v2 from the given context.
"blah" is probably a short version of the text as recommended for
applying the GPL (adress of FSF etc). It just a (strange) habit of Michel.

> 4check: it should be checked if they work at all. For example there is
> gentoo checks which might not work - can someone who is doing gentoo
> stuff check it?

Thomas did care for gentoo recently. Probably he could answer best here.

> depend-misc: these scripts depends on various nasl/inc files which are
> not free, but with relatively small effort they could be rewritten to
> not require commercial scripts, the scripts itself are free

I'd say: check them in. We have already a lot of such scripts in there.

> depend-rpc: these scripts depends on various RPC include scripts which
> are not free, but the scripts itself are free

same here.
 
> depend-smb: these scripts depends on various SMB include scripts which
> are not free, but the scripts itself are free

again.
 
> Can you take a look at it and tell if it's okay to commit them to SVN?
> I mean gpl directory. For others let's see what we can do.
> Also, what we should do with the scripts for which we don't have right
> includes? should we start writting from the scratch copyrighted .inc files?

See above. Yes, we shuld step by step fill all remaining gaps (where it makes 
sense).
 
> BTW David also pointed me to stillsecure nasl archive at:
> http://arachnids.stillsecure.com/SAT/scripts/OSSSA/GPL/released/OSSSA/scripts/

there was already some discussion about this repository in the OpenVAS project 
- 
I didn't found the emails at a quick glance though. Maybe it was at IRC or 
elsewhere
discussed.

> I can get in contact with them also and commit it to SVN if we find some
> scripts useful.

seems like a good idea to me :-)

Best

        Jan


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