Hi All: This is my first post on this forum so excuse me for mistakes, if any. I suppose if calls are made to the nessus executable from the code of one's product then one doesnt have to make one's code GPL'ed right?
regards, Samir Kelekar, Pradnya Systems, Bangalore. > well you could certain do that, and several companies have including my own > which offers it as service but you would have to made sure any code you > added to the orignal code base would comply with the nessus license which i > believe is GPL. This basically states that any code you release must be > free and the source code must be made available. YOu can charge for > distribution costs or other services. So bottom line, good for a service > based company not so good for software you intend to sell commercially. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of James Clark > Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 7:21 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Nessus Licensing? > > > Can nessus be used as a commercial tool? That is to say a backend for a > commercial application. What are the limitations of this project? > > Thnxs, > J > >
