* Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña: > On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 03:52:14PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: >> >> Tenable claims that the GPL has never applied to their plugins, only >> to the plugins that were explicitly released under the GPL. > > That claim is really not true, since the "Nessus Script License" was (until > recently) equivalent to the GPL. All plugin developers (me included) have > contributed stuff to plugins based on that. Licensing of plugins has been > discussed previously in the nessus-plugins mailing lists, there was even a > discussion back in 2001 when Renaud was considering changing its license, > please read: > > http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/apps/nessus/2001-q2/0434.html
Tenable Network Security claims this relicensing never happened for the plugins. (I've asked them.) Mere aggregation with GPL-covered works does not cause software to fall under the GPL automatically, so Debian is unfortunately on rather thin ice. 8-(
