Re: Nessus - open or closed source?

[Alex Bihlmaier <thalunil () kallisti de>]

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...?

http://mail.nessus.org/pipermail/nessus-announce/2005-October/msg00000.html
According to that:

Version 3 won't be released under the GPL.
Former versions, of course, are still licensed under the GPL.

Please note this upcoming project:
http://porz-wahn.berlios.de


grtx,
 thal

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