[GNUz] Moving ...

Wesley Parish gnuz@inode.co.nz
Sun, 16 Oct 2005 19:30:13 +1300


On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 22:22, Nick Rout wrote:
> 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-gnessu
> >s-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.

I wouldn't contest that.

Wesley Parish
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