Fwd: Re: Tenable Commerical Registered Plugin Feed Licensing Question

[Jon Passki]

--- Mark Linimon <linimon at lonesome.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 07:47:13PM -0700, Jon Passki wrote:
> > Should this be marked RESTRICTED, MASTER_SITES be altered to
> only
> > go for nessus.org/tenablesecurity.com servers, or the project
> not
> > even worry about it?
> 
> The latter is not an option.

Just wanted to be complete...

> From my reading they have two licenses for plugins: GPL and this
> ...
> "special" ... license.  We (the project) need to change the
> following
> things on the latter ones:
> 
>  - The ports should be marked RESTRICTED;
>  - The MASTER_SITES should be blank;
>  - IGNORE needs to be set using similiar technology as in e.g.
> databases/msql

If using the latter license, setting MASTER_SITES to only their
servers should be sufficient, don't you think?  I didn't read
anywhere in the license where the end user needed to manually
download the source, only that the source needed to be downloaded
directly from their servers.

> Udo, please let us (portmgr@) know if this is something that you
> can take
> care of in a timely fashion, otherwise, we will look at it
> ourselves.
> 
> To reiterate: the project cannot be in a position to ignore
> copyright
> and redistribution terms that software authors impose, no matter
> what
> our own feelings about those terms or the pre-existing status
> quo.

Of course, hence the email (^_^)

Jon



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