Re: [Plugins-writers] On the copyright of the Nessus reports...

From: Michael Scheidell (scheidell@private)
Date: Wed Dec 10 2003 - 12:54:58 PST

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    > > My understanding is that every plugin that was submitted was under GPL,
    > > and while I might like our company name mentioned in every report of
    > > everyone out there who runs nessus (and its commercial cousin, NeWT) I
    > > think it might get clumbersom.
    > 
    > 
    > Basically, the idea is not to add pages and pages of names (as they can
    > be found from the report), but basically _remind_ everyone that the
    > plugins authors have control on the text they write. 
    
    I agree with you.
    
    I don't think we should report every name on every plugin.
    
    Too clumbersom.
    > 
    > (*) This is not the case of everyone. Believe it or not, there is a company 
    > out there which sells Nessus on an appliance and who routinely says during 
    > their training classes that while Marty Roesch is a nice guy (which is true), 
    > I'm evil (which not true - hey, I can be a nice guy). Why ? Because I *dared* 
    > to forbid them to use Nessus.org because while they live off Nessus, there's no
    > mention of it on their website at all.
    
    hey, I mention nessus all the time! (or at least, a lot of the time)
    
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