Plugin modification

[Biswas, Proneet]

The other part of this question is that do I need to publish the
plugins/scripts too or publishing the source code is enough.

-----Original Message-----
From: Renaud Deraison [mailto:deraison at nessus.org]
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 5:31 AM
To: nessus at list.nessus.org
Subject: Re: Plugin modification


On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 09:22:59PM -0700, Biswas, Proneet wrote:
> I want to use NASL for writing my own scripts specific to my network. To
> help identify my scripts, I am thinking of modifying the scripts with a
new
> function call:
> script_custom_id

You could simply use an ID between 99000 and 99999, which is typically
reserved for private plugins.

> My concern is that after I modify the NASL and the plugins, do I need to
> publish the modifications ?

If you redistribute the modified version of Nessus, you must
redistribute the source code of your changes to whoever your giving it
to. If you keep your copy on your disk, you don't need to publish
anything.


				-- Renaud
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