On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 12:47:10PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi,
> I think most Nessus users would like to play fair, but I think many > of us are confused with exactly what is considered legal use of Tenable > plugins. The full license is available at : http://www.nessus.org/plugins/index.php?email=x&product=x > For example, earlier you mentioned that including these > plugins in an applience was wrong. I don't produce or sell such a > device, or have ever even used one, but before that post I would have > assumed it was legal since I knew Nessus was GPL. Now that I understand > that the plugins are released under a different licence it makes > complete sense to me. Today there was a post, however, that mentions > Tenable plugins being used in "commercial service/product/consultancy". > So this almost seems to say that any for profit use of Tenable plugins > is wrong. Is this correct? No, you're mistaken. You can profit from the use of Tenable plugins if you provide a service. > With the new system can we legaly use it > for profit no matter if we've chosen the GPL only feed, the free > registration feed, or the fee feed? If you sell a commercial service (ie: you perform consulting services for a third party and scan his networks) you are free to do so but you simply need authorization from Tenable - see: <http://www.nessus.org/plugins/index.php?consultant=1&email=x&product=> -- Renaud _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
