At 07:44 PM 10/11/2005, Jason Haar wrote:
Mercer, Jeff wrote:
>Tenable is a company that makes money off of appliances that uses Nessus. So
>they hire programmers to work on Nessus. They've decided to write a bunch of
>proprietary code and create a new version of Nessus and not GPL it. In other
>words, the code has ALREADY FORKED.
>
>
You can put an interesting spin on that. If Tenable had come out saying
"Nessus 2 will always be GPL, but we now have a new, improved commercial
product called 'Kentauros', and by the way it's free to use too!", some
people might not have become so upset.
The funny thing is, we did this more than a year ago with the NeWT scanner
and no-one complained. We added several tens of thousands of users to the
Nessus community and no one suggested that the Nessus 2 GPL was in danger,
even though there was lots of proprietary code in NeWT. I'm hoping that
Nessus 3 is going to add even more people to the community.
I had the idea of changing the name of Nessus 3 to something else expressed
to me at the Interzone West conference this pass weekend. We had considered
this, but since we were not charging money for it, we didn't want to go
with a name change.
PS: Totally OT, but where did the name Nessus come to be associated with
a vuln scanner? I can't figure any linkage between Centaurs and vuln
scanners. :-)
You are correct on the reference to the mythical beast that kills Hercules,
but I'll leave it to Renaud to tell any origins of Nessus stories.
Ron
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