GPL Nessus Security Tool Closes Source

The source code of one of the world's most popular free security tools will no longer be available to all, with its creator stating its open source licence was fuelling competition against his company. "Nessus 3 will be available free of charge ... But will not be released under the GPL," wrote Renaud Deraison yesterday to the software's email mailing list.

В кратце: такой замечательный сканер безопасности как Несус закрывает свои исходники и больше не будит GPL хотя и будит бесплатным (сомневаюсь что долго). Собсна вот http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=12139

ИМХО это не гесть хорошо.

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Хотя обратную совместимость со второй веткой обещают.

"Nessus 3 will be available free of charge, including on the Windows platform, but will not be released under the GPL.

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 is why Nessus 2 will continue to be maintained and will stay under the GPL.

To make things simple :

- Nessus 2 : GPL, will have regular releases containing bug fixes - Nessus 3 : free of charge, contains major improvements

The two versions can share most of their plugins -- we intend to maintain backward compatibility whenever possible for most vulnerability checks. Some checks will only work on Nessus 3 (ie: we are about to release a set of plugins to determine policy compliance), but the huge majority will work on either platform likewise."

XeDuH ★
(06.10.05 20:42:56 MSK) автор топика