questions regarding new plugin policy

[Renaud Deraison]

On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 12:47:10PM -0700, davenessus at davewking.com wrote:

Hi,

>    I think most Nessus users would like to play fair, but I think many 
> of us are confused with exactly what is considered legal use of Tenable 
> plugins. 

The full license is available at :

http://www.nessus.org/plugins/index.php?email=x&product=x


>  For example, earlier you mentioned that including these 
> plugins in an applience was wrong.  I don't produce or sell such a 
> device, or have ever even used one, but before that post I would have 
> assumed it was legal since I knew Nessus was GPL.  Now that I understand 
> that the plugins are released under a different licence it makes 
> complete sense to me.  Today there was a post, however, that mentions 
> Tenable plugins being used in "commercial service/product/consultancy".  
> So this almost seems to say that any for profit use of Tenable plugins 
> is wrong.  Is this correct?  

No, you're mistaken. You can profit from the use of Tenable plugins if
you provide a service.

> With the new system can we legaly use it 
> for profit no matter if we've chosen the GPL only feed, the free 
> registration feed, or the fee feed?

If you sell a commercial service (ie: you perform consulting services
for a third party and scan his networks) you are free to do so but you
simply need authorization from Tenable - see:

<http://www.nessus.org/plugins/index.php?consultant=1&email=x&product=>



				-- Renaud