On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 07:52:52PM +0100, Javier Fernandez-Sanguino wrote:
> Axel Thimm wrote:
> Yes, they _cannot_ redistributed the nessus-plugins unless they just
> use the GPL plugins. [...]

> > 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.

Thanks, Javier, that clarifies it quite a bit. Looks like I can
continue packaging as usuall by ignoring that there is a new extended
set of plugins.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net

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