On 10/13/05, Dinesh Nair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> this may also be a call for new blood to assist in the continuation of nessus
> 2.
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I would tend to take it that way.
Aaron
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On 10/12/05 01:00 Ted Mittelstaedt said the following:
The authors, of course.
Stand the problem on it's head. Where are the Nessus people going to
find customers for Nessus 3? From Nessus 2 users. If they let the
Nessus 2 codebase go to pot then people will stop using it, and they lose
a va
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>Subject: Re: Nessus no longer open source
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>On 10/07/05 03:57 Ted M
On 10/07/05 03:57 Ted Mittelstaedt said the following:
would have been prevented from using it. Almost certainly the research
in the
vulnerabilities that go into Nessus 3 will trickle into Nessus 2
eventually. So
however given that the nessus author(s) said that one main reason was the
lack
On 10/07/05 00:04 Gayn Winters said the following:
vulnerable, since under the GPL the AUTHOR of the code is not bound by
the same restrictions that the users are. I'm not a lawyer, but as I
i believe that all licenses allow this, as the author/copyright holder of
the code can license it out
On Oct 6, 2005, at 12:04 PM, Gayn Winters wrote:
"Nessus 3 will be available for many platforms, but do understand that
we won't be able to support every distribution / operating system
available. I also understand that some free software advocates won't
want to use a binary-only Nessus 3. This i
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>One of the highest rated open source security
On Thursday 06 October 2005 11:04, Gayn Winters wrote:
> [...] under the GPL the AUTHOR of the code is not bound by the same
> restrictions that the users are.
I don't think that's completely true. The author has copyright over the
work that they themselves wrote, but it's my understanding tha
One of the highest rated open source security programs, nessus, will no
longer be open source. Quoting from an email from Renaud Deraison
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to [EMAIL PROTECTED],
"Nessus 3 will be available free of charge, including on the Windows
platform, but will not be released under the G