[GNUz] Moving ...

[Nick Rout]

On Sat, 2005-10-15 at 21:06 +1300, Wesley Parish wrote:

> 
> Apparently there's some people doing the same thing with nessus:
> http://www.subterrain.net/drupal/blog
> http://www.subterrain.net/drupal/nessus-3.0-abandons-gpl-licensing-gnessus-fork-launched
> "Nessus -- once billed as "the open-source vulnerability scanner" -- is 
> changing its ways as of the 3.0 release, which is expected shortly. According 
> to a recent post on the Nessus Announcements mailing list "Nessus 3 will be 
> available free of charge, including on the Windows platform, but will not be 
> released under the GPL." On its Web site, Nessus now just bills itself as 
> "the network vulnerability scanner." It is worth noting that Tim Brown has 
> already created a fork called gnessus based on the latest GPL'd release of 
> Nessus. This is what happens when a company bites the open source hand that 
> feeds it."

>From the other posts in this list and the reasons nessus's owner gave
for not GPLing the new version, the open source hand was NOT feeding it.