Most parts of OpenVAS-Client are released
under the "GNU GPLv2" or "GNU GPLv2 or any later version" license
(see COPYING).

The files under libnessus/ are a partial copy of nessus-libraries
which is licensed under "LGPL or any later version"
(see libnessus/COPYING).

OpenVAS-Client may be linked with OpenSSL (see COPYING.OpenSSL).

The source code copyright is hold by various persons and organizations.
See the respective files for details which are the master information.

However, here is a summary copy of all the copyright information
assembled by the Debian Package maintainers. This
summary dates 2007-12-27.



 - OpenVAS GUI and documentation:
     * Copyright (C) 2004, 2005, 2007 Intevation GmbH
     * Copyright (C) 2005 by DN-Systems GmbH
     * Copyright (C) 1998-2006 Renaud Deraison
     * Copyright (C) 1993 Free Software Foundation, Inc [regex library]
     * Copyright (C) 2001 Michael Arboi [ssl]

  - Include files:
     [nessus] Copyright (C) 1998-2006 Renaud Deraison
              Copyright (c) Nessus Consulting S.A.R.L., 2000 - 2001
     
  - Translations: 
     * Copyright (C) 2007 Intevation GmbH [he,
     * Copyright (C) 2007 Javier Fernandez-Sanguino <jfs@debian.org> [es]
     * Copyright (C) 1995-1997, 2000-2003 by Ulrich Drepper
                 <drepper@gnu.ai.mit.edu> [makefile]

Other copyrights:

- Libnessus library: 
    Copyright (C) 1998-2002 Renaud Deraison
    Copyright (C) 2001 Michael Arboi
    Copyright (c) Nessus Consulting S.A.R.L., 2000 - 2001
    Copyright (c) mjh-EDV Beratung, 1996-1999

 - Autoconf:
    Copyright (C) 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999,
    2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 Free Software Foundation,
    Inc.

  - GD chart:
     * Copyright.  Bruce Verderaime.  1998, 1999, 2000
                   <brv@fred.net>
     * Copyright 1994, Cold Spring Harbor Labs.
     * Copyright 1998, Libor Skarvada, libor@informatics.muni.cz
     * Copyright (C) 1989 by Jef Poskanzer.
     * Copyright (C) 1998 Hutchison Avenue Software Corporation
     * Copyright 1990, 1991, 1993, David Koblas <koblas@netcom.com>


Authors:

 - OpenVAS GUI:
     * Renaud Deraison
     * Thomas Arendsen Hein <thomas@intevation.de>
     * Dirk Jagdmann <dirk@jagdmann.de>
     * Jan-Oliver Wagner <jan.oliver.wagner@intevation.de>
     * Thomas Arendsen Hein <thomas.arendsen.hein@intevation.de>
     * Bernhard Herzog <bh@intevation.de>
     * Michael Arboi [ssl]

License:

This package holds software with three four different licenses:

- GNU General Public License version 2 or later: the GUI itself (the frontend)
- GNU General Public License version 2: the nessus backend
- GNU Library General Public License version 2 or later: the nessus library,
  its includes, and some files of the nessus backend
- A BSD/MIT license: the GD chart library and some of the contents of the
  nessus library

The following text explains which licenses apply to which parts of the code. In
case of doubt the interested party should review the copyright headers of the
affected files.

The license for most of the software in this package is the following:

    This software is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License.

    This software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
    GNU General Public License for more details.
 
    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
    along with this package; if not, write to the Free Software
    Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301 USA

Notice that some parts of the software (source code files) are available
at a GPL version 2 or (at your choice) a later version, as described above.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General
Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL'.

In addition, as a special exception, the copyright holders give
permission to link the code of portions of this program with the
OpenSSL library under certain conditions as described in each
individual source file, and distribute linked combinations
including the two.

You must obey the GNU General Public License in all respects
for all of the code used other than OpenSSL.  If you modify
file(s) with this exception, you may extend this exception to your
version of the file(s), but you are not obligated to do so.  If
you do not wish to do so, delete this exception statement from your
version.  If you delete this exception statement from all source
files in the program, then also delete it here.

Also, OpenVAS sources include (parts of) the libnessus library under the
libnessus/ directory, this library is distributed under the GNU LIBRARY GENERAL
PUBLIC LICENSE version 2 (or later).  On Debian systems, the complete text of
the GNU Library General Public License can be found in
`/usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL'.

The Debian packaging is (C) 2007, Tim Brown <timb@nth-dimension.org.uk> and
is licensed under the GPL, see above.
