Re: Nessus - open or closed source?

From: Alex Bihlmaier (thalunil_at_kallisti.de)
Date: 11/04/05

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    Serg B. wrote:
    > Hi All,
    >
    > I don't recall where I read it, but... Something about Nessus going into
    > proprietry market and that future releases of the scanner will not be
    > available under GPL licence.
    >
    > Could someone confirm that or...?

    http://mail.nessus.org/pipermail/nessus-announce/2005-October/msg00000.html
    According to that:

    Version 3 won't be released under the GPL.
    Former versions, of course, are still licensed under the GPL.

    Please note this upcoming project:
    http://porz-wahn.berlios.de

    grtx,
      thal

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