You mention the nmap license which was news to me. Preferring to go to the source rather than someone's interpretation I did so (http://nmap.org/data/COPYING) and you are right. He's free to use whatever license he wants, but to portray it as a GPL license is misleading given his terms.
Tim Doty -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michel Arboi Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 9:15 AM To: Mercer, Jeff C - Raleigh, NC Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: How to correctly modify nmap.nasl? On Thu, 8 May 2008 08:25:19 -0500 "Mercer, Jeff C - Raleigh, NC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Considering how wildly popular Nmap is, how widely used it is I'm sorry, but this is not a reference. "Billions of flies cannot be wrong, etc." > and the many advantages to Nmap Which are? > I've never understood why Tenable Security is so dead-set against it. I am not working for Tenable, but I wrote nessus_tcp_scanner, and I am quite convinced that it is quicker, more reliable, and less resource greedy than Nmap. Scan 65K ports on a Solaris with Nmap: it will take half an hour. Try with nessus_tcp_scanner, it will finish in a couple of minutes. > Other than the ususal egomania of 'Well I didn't write it so I hate > people using it' crap. Fyodor gave "his" interpretation of the GPL and twisted it to forbid a commercial tool from calling Nmap and reading the result. After all, he is the author, so he may choose whatever licence he wants. But I think that you sent your pathetic troll to the wrong target. > Yes, many folks have no clue how to correctly use Nmap and use it with > Nessus. You will not eliminate those people nor the noise they create. > It's better to teach and expand knowledge than to restrict and play > power games. Many folks have no clue on how to use Nessus correctly. We'd rather spend time on this topic. > That being said, an import plugin would be damn useful. The current nmap.nasl plugin *can* import nmap -oG results. -- http://www.bigfoot.com/~arboi http://ma75.blogspot.com/ PGP key ID : 0x0BBABA91 - 0x1320924F0BBABA91 Fingerprint: 1048 B09B EEAF 20AA F645 2E1A 1320 924F 0BBA BA91 _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [email protected] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
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