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remove nse-license section, add content to nse-format-license

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fyodor
2008-06-06 06:17:13 +00:00
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<sect2 id="nse-format-license">
<title><literal>license</literal> Field </title>
<para>This field describes the license applied to the script. All scripts currently shipped with Nmap contain:</para>
<para>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 <literal>license</literal> 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 <xref linkend="nmap-copyright"/>). They
the following line:</para>
<programlisting>
license = "Same as Nmap--See http://nmap.org/book/man-legal.html"
</programlisting>
<para>See <xref linkend="nse-license"/> for further details on contributing NSE scripts to Nmap.
</para>
<para>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.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="nse-format-runlevel">
@@ -3428,14 +3440,3 @@ executed if it is run against a specific target. After the check those script-ta
</para>
</sect2>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="nse-license">
<title>NSE Script License and Community Contributions</title>
<para>
<remark>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 <ulink url="http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2006/q3/0156.html">this
<citetitle>nmap-dev</citetitle> post</ulink>. We certainly welcome script contributions!</remark>
</para>
</sect1>