GPL Clarification

Renaud Deraison deraison at nessus.org
Wed Jan 5 07:42:19 EST 2005


On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 12:43:56PM -0800, M J wrote:

Hi,

> In a prior post, you mentioned there are GPL & a
> non-GPL plugins. Can you clarify exactly what is and
> what is not a GPL plugin? 

Plugins who state that they are released under the GPL or the Nessus
Script Licence are under the GPL. The others are not.

> Also, if I write my own plugin, do I have to
> submit it to Nessus  to be included in the GPL feed?

If you distribute your plugins, you have to distribute them under the
GPLv2.


				-- Renaud



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