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Re: Nessus - open or closed source?


From: Joachim Schipper <j.schipper () math uu nl>
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 15:31:46 +0100

On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 06:44:17PM +1100, Serg B. wrote:
Hi All, 

I don't recall where I read it, but... Something about Nessus going into
proprietry market and that future releases of the scanner will not be
available under GPL licence.

Could someone confirm that or...?

   Serg

If I'm not mistaken, it's Full-Disclosure you're thinking of.

See
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2005-October/037863.html
and the thread following it.

Though the information in there could be more complete... search around.

                Joachim

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