Re: Nessus - open or closed source?

[Giancarlo Razzolini <linux-fan () onda com br>]

Joachim Schipper wrote:
> 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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Right now the plugin feeds of the nessus are under the tenable license.
Only the client and the server are under GPL. The OpenVAS project is the
continuation of the gnessus project. It's a great loss for the security
guys that rely on nessus for making their pen tests. I hope that the
OpenVAS project does keep the same quality level of the nessus project.

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