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Re: Tenable License Agreement
From: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks () VT EDU>
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:00:53 -0400
On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:43:00 CDT, Chris Green said:
That's language our Legal department won't accept under any circumstances.
Did your Legal people explain *why* they won't accept it, and/or give possible alternate wordage they would find acceptable? I *think* what it's saying is that if you use Nessus against (for example) a computer that happens to be embedded in medical equipment, and the Nessus scan crashes the NT4 SP2 system inside it and somebody dies, you can't sue Tenable. I'd be surprised if *most* EULAs and software licenses that your site has either negotiated or click-through'ed don't have similar language - they usually disavow all liability they legally can. What's in the Tenable agreement that isn't in a Microsoft or Oracle or <fill in the blank> license, that gives your legal people the willies?
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