On Samstag, 16. August 2008, Jonas Andradas Arias wrote:
> >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Barry Smoke
> >I know nessus 3 was not released under gpl...
> >
> >did the plugins licensing change at that point also...?
>
> As far as I know, Nessus Plugins stopped being GPL since version 2.2.
There still remained a set of GPLed plugins in the Nessus distributions and the
feed
for a while. I guess there are still some in there.
> Only a handful of them (the ones included in the nessus-plugins debian
> package, and I suppose those are the ones included in OpenVAS) were GPL.
OpenVAS tries its best to have all NASL routines that were ever released under
GPL in the plugins modul.
Also any new plugins should be GPL or GPL compatible.
> >Can I take my current plugins, and move them over to openvas, or are all
> >the gpl ones already included?
>
> With the current license, I think you can *NOT* move them over to OpenVAS,
> but probably you could rewrite them for OpenVAS, but that is somewhat
> tricky... Where is the thin line that separates when you are just making a
> plugin that does the same as a Nessus one does, and when are you "making a
> derivate work" of their plugin (and thus, might not be allowed to do that
> based on their license).
Indeed I think you are _not_ permitted by Tenable to use them with OpenVAS.
In fact, for quite a long time, the plugins license required to use a Nessus
retrieved
from nessus.org which made use of these plugins with any GNU/Linux distibution
binary
packages illegal anyway.
For trivial plugins I do not expect troublemaking by Tenable.
If there is only one way to implement it, there is only one way to implement it.
Best
Jan
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