On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 04:30:02PM -0800, Eijiro Matsumoto wrote:
> Shouldn't all the rules prior to Dec. 7th be GPL?
No.
> I was going off Renaud's posting in 2001 where he stated
> all plugins are GPL. Without informing anyone of the
> change of license until Dec. 7th, it appears
> everything before that date should be GPL? Am I wrong
> on this point?
You are wrong. There have been plugins released under another license
(os_fingerprint.nasl to name one). The plugins (C) Tenable have
not been released under the GPL.
> Also, is tenable's goal here to put others exploiting
> nessus out of business or to collect licensing fees or
> some variant thereof?
The goal is to stop the abuse from a handful (a large handful, that is)
of companies who put Nessus and our plugins on an appliance and claim
that it's "their" scanner. If you are in such a position, maybe you
should have asked the copyright owner in the first place if you could
redistribute the plugins to start with (that's called common courtesy by
the way). If you did not even check the copyright, then shame on you.
-- Renaud
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