Re: Nessus - open or closed source?

[King Fuddler <darkiye () gmail com>]

You might have read it here:

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/06/1853248&tid=172

However, there's a new GPLd version that's been started from the last
open-source release of Nessus. It's taken the name of OpenVAS (it was
called GNessUs for a short while after the closing of Nessus' source),
everybody's watching to see how it's going to do, compared to it's
parent product:

http://www.openvas.org/doku.php

On 11/4/05, Serg B. <serg.belokamen () gmail com> 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
>
>
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