Axel Thimm wrote:
Hi,
I tried to read through the recent threads to find whether any third party packager (like ATrpms) offering nessus packages need to do anything else than adding the new license and adjusting the respective fields in the package metadata.
Yes, they _cannot_ redistributed the nessus-plugins unless they just use the GPL plugins. Notice that simply adjusting the license is not OK since the license does not allow for redistribution.
I.e. is nessus still redistributable if packaged as an rpm, with some patches to make it fit into the target OS?
Nessus-core, nessus-libraries, and libnasl can be destributable.
Nessus-plugins can only be distributable if it contains "fully free" (as in freedom) GPL plugins those are the ones you get if you go to ftp.nessus.org.
I'm not a Tenable representative, but after reading the license and talking with them I can safely say that re-distributing the free feed is not OK.
If you want to see how it's done (properly) take a look at the Nessus 2.2.3 plugin packages in Debian:
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/nessus-plugins
You can check out the debian/copyright and the debian/NEWS files there too... (look for them in the diff)
Regards
Javier _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [email protected] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
