[en] There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth

Tenable Security has changed the way Nessus plugins are distributed. There are now two feed:

• one for the ~ 3000 GPL plugins: they are available freely and can be redistributed freely.
  
• one for the ~ 3000 Tenable plugins. To get them, you have to register, and pay if you want them at once, or get them with a delay of one week.

This modification is not a licence change: Renaud has been warning for years on the mailing lists that some plugins were not necessarily GPLed.
It is not really a surprise either: Tenable is a privately owned company and has to make money. This move clearly targets ASP which resell Nessus and the plugins without authorization, often violating the GPL and intellectual property of C code or plugins contributers.

As usual, some people were pissed off by this move and yelled on the mailing list, mostly for bad reasons.
I did not hear them when ASP violated my intellectual property.
Strange, isn't it?