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
On 10/13/05, Dinesh Nair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...snip...
this may also be a call for new blood to assist in the continuation of nessus
2.
...snip...
I would tend to take it that way.
Aaron
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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
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
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Subject: Re: Nessus no longer open source
On 10/07/05 03:57 Ted Mittelstaedt said the following:
would
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
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 that
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Subject: Nessus no longer open source
One of the highest rated open source security programs, nessus, will no
longer be open source
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
