Tenable license on nessus plugins

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Wed Apr 12 01:02:46 UTC 2006


> "You shall not, directly or indirectly:  (i) sell, lease, rent, license,   
> sublicense, distribute, redistribute or transfer any Plugins or   
> any of your rights under this Agreement; (ii) modify, translate,   
> reverse engineer (except to the limited extent permitted by law),   
> decompile, disassemble or create derivative works based on any   
> Plugins; (iii) use any Plugins other than in conjunction with   
> Registered Nessus or NeWT Scanners obtained directly from   
> www.nessus.org or www.tenablesecurity.com to detect   
> vulnerabilities on your own system or network or on the system or   
> network; or (iv) remove, alter or obscure any proprietary notice,   
> labels or marks on any Plugins."   
   
This is obviously neither Free Software nor Open Source nor even anywhere near!  
So IMHO this is completely unacceptable.   
   
       Kevin Kofler 
 
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