Re: [Nessus-announce] Nessus Roadmap / Nessus 3.0.0rc1 testers wanted

["George A. Theall" <theall_at_tenablesecurity.com>]

On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 02:04:58PM -0400, Paul Mraz wrote:

> I'm sure that has nothing to do with the fact that  Tenable refuses to
> publish  plugins  developed  under GPL when they have plans to develop
> them in house and can make money off a registered feed.

Before I worked for Tenable, I authored several dozen plugins for
Nessus. I do recall one or two instances in which plugins were rejected,
but each was because David Maciejak had submitted an alternate before
me. David's plugins, btw, are GPL'd.

Mindful of this, since joining Tenable I've been encouraging third-party
plugin contributors such as David and Josh Zlatin-Amishav to coordinate
with us before writing a plugin by dropping a note of their intentions
to plugins_at_nessus.org. I generally tend to respond to these. And while I
might tell someone not to write a plugin, it's because either (1)
someone else has already written it or has committed to writing it or
(2) the benefit of having such plugin, as perceived by both Tenable and
the third-party author, is small.

P.S. The "registered" feed is free but time-delayed; presumably you
meant the "direct" feed.

George
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