Re: Nessus - open or closed source?

From: Joachim Schipper (j.schipper@math.uu.nl)
Date: Fri Nov 04 2005 - 09:31:46 EST


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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