On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 10:52:19AM +0100, Javier Fernandez-Sanguino wrote:
> Axel Thimm wrote:
> 
> >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.
> 
> Correct, but please notice that Tenable's plugins where not unbundled 
> from the nessus-plugins tar.gz until the 2.2.3 release. So don't use 
> 2.2.2(a)'s nessus-plugins (Renaud has removed those from 
> ftp.nessus.org but there might be mirror copies around).

Thanks, I never use sources from mirrors for packaging.

> Also, the COPYING file in the nessus-plugin tar.gz at ftp.nessus.org
> is incorrect (it's Tenable's license when it should be the GPL
> license which is equivalent to the Nessus Script License) and the
> (c) statements in the NASL plugins contradict that.

Well, I feel uncomfortable overriding the COPYING file, even if the
authors slipped it in by mistake and would have said so on this
list. After all the tarball is all you officially have.

A misplaced license should be fixed by a new release IMHO
(2.2.3a?). Any chance this could happen?
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net

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