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

From: Renaud Deraison (deraison@private)
Date: Fri Dec 12 2003 - 06:02:51 PST

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    On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 09:06:45AM +0100, Javier Fernandez-Sanguino wrote:
    > Notice that any NASL plugin author which has not transfered copyright 
    > to Reanud could say: this NASL plugin is no longer GPLd, its 
    > closed-source license and you cannot use it. And all Nessus users out 
    > there would be copyright violators (unknowingly). The same could 
    > happen if Renaud (let's hope that never happens) says the same for the 
    > full Nessus source at some point.
    
    You can not revoke a licence this easily. What the copyright holder can
    say is that version N+1 will be licenced under something else than the
    GPL, but that does not make version N illegal.
    
    
    
    				-- Renaud
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