From 8b0b2559ea018518d0bc7e3d1c5e7839e1e08819 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: fyodor Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 06:17:13 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] remove nse-license section, add content to nse-format-license --- docs/scripting.xml | 29 +++++++++++++++-------------- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/scripting.xml b/docs/scripting.xml index e59e07242..5583ae9f2 100644 --- a/docs/scripting.xml +++ b/docs/scripting.xml @@ -506,12 +506,24 @@ categories. <literal>license</literal> Field - This field describes the license applied to the script. All scripts currently shipped with Nmap contain: + + Nmap is a community project and we welcome all sorts of + code contributions, including NSE scripts. So if you write a + valuable script, don't keep it to yourself! + The license field helps ensure that we have + legal permission to distribute all the scripts which come with Nmap. All of those scripts + currently use the standard Nmap license + (described in ). They + the following line: + license = "Same as Nmap--See http://nmap.org/book/man-legal.html" -See for further details on contributing NSE scripts to Nmap. - + +The Nmap license is similar to the GNU GPL. Script authors may +use a BSD-style license (no advertising clause) instead if they prefer +that. + @@ -3428,14 +3440,3 @@ executed if it is run against a specific target. After the check those script-ta - - NSE Script License and Community Contributions - - - Fyodor is working on this. The general idea is for scripts to be contributed - and distributed under the same license as Nmap, as described - in this - nmap-dev post. We certainly welcome script contributions! - - -