vFeed has gone commercial...

[lvets]

Hello,

It seems that vFeed has gone commercial: http://www.vfeed.io. There's still a community feed, but you have to register.

I now get the following error when updating cve-search:

...
Starting vfeed
Cannot open url http://www.toolswatch.org/vfeed/vfeed.db.tgz. Bad URL or not connected to the internet?
vfeed has 79987 elements (0 update)
...

[PidgeyL]

@toolswatch What would be the preferred approach for CVE-Search?

[toolswatch]

Hi,
In fact, there are 3 different plans. Since CVE-search is not commercial and public, it falls under the Community Plan (see here http://www.vfeed.io/pricing/) . So, you can still register and download it. Once there is a new available db release, you will get notified via email with a direct link to the download. The only hassle (as for now) is that you have to decompress the DB yourself.

[PidgeyL]

Decompressing is not an issue. It's more the question of, "does every user of CVE-Search need an account, or do we make one generic account?"

[toolswatch]

Every user must open an account. Every usage of the database is tied to an account. This model will be enhanced later to become API Key.
I need as well to control those who are using and embedding the database within their commercial software (and i got tons of them. Making money on my back !!).

[PidgeyL]

@adulau I assume we should change vFeed to a plug-in as well then, so that users that don't want to create an account, don't have to?