Dear OpenVAS Users, the OpenVAS-9 announcement pointed out Greenbone's branding problem regarding the contributions to the community. The role of Greenbone as central contributor is not visible enough and leads to misunderstandings. Even the press puts it sometimes wrong, which impacts our commercial competition against proprietary vendors.
Greenbone keeps being faithful to and convinced of the Open Source approach for a transparent and shared technology. Our commercial solution offers several fundamental values that make a clear difference to plain OpenVAS. But the relationship of Greenbone and OpenVAS needs to become visible at the first glance. on OpenVAS. Apart from the branding confusion, another nuisance are companies integrating the technology and feed and pretending it to be theirs or claiming to be an alternative to Greenbone's product at a better price. A minority of them properly comply with the licenses. None of them commercially cooperates with Greenbone. For achieving better visibility, less misunderstanding and better distinction from other OpenVAS-based products we plan to rename the public feed from "OpenVAS NVT Feed" to "Greenbone Community Feed" for branding reason. We also started to restrict access to the public NVT source code management system (the "openvas-nvts" SVN repository). However, there are no changes regarding licenses! Currently the Community Feed is delayed by 14 days, but we want to make it a up-to-date, fully QA'ed and daily updated feed where we just do not add features for large enterprise environments. A real benefit will be the immediate availability of "Hot NVTs" which address security problems running fast through the Internet and through the news. We are very glad and happy about the active user community. And we are aware this change impacts the situation for some users. We were reluctant to take this step, but we hope you understand the situation. On the other hand this step supports the long-term availability of the technology as Open Source to everyone. Please feel free to contact me if you have questions, comments or suggestions. Best regards Jan -- Dr. Jan-Oliver Wagner | +49-541-760278-0 | http://www.greenbone.net/ Greenbone Networks GmbH, Neumarkt 12, 49074 Osnabrück | AG Osnabrück, HR B 202460 Geschäftsführer: Lukas Grunwald, Dr. Jan-Oliver Wagner _______________________________________________ Openvas-announce mailing list Openvas-announce@wald.intevation.org https://lists.wald.intevation.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openvas-announce
