Am wondering if I missed this somewhere... was an explanation given (other than the "lack of other contributors" line) for the commercialization of Nessus? I recall back in January when the plugins were brought under the new license that there were comments that other companies were repackaging Nessus as their own (unfair competition). It seemed that delaying the plugin feed was a reasonable step toward solving that problem. Am wondering if this change did not, in fact, have the desired effect?
Additionally, am wondering what assurances have been taken to ensure that ideas contributed to the open-source Nessus project over the years are not incorporated into the commercial version that is to be released under a closed license? GPL covers more than just code - it covers ideas, too. Would hate to see a commercial product deployed that included ideas generated by the FOSS community... Also, are testers being required to sign agreements for testing? Would hope so, since any feedback would now be provided for a commercial, non-GPL product. questions, questions... --- Benjamin Tomhave, CISSP [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://falcon.secureconsulting.net/ "We must scrupulously guard the civil liberties of all citizens, whatever their background. We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred is a wedge designed to attack our civilization." -President Franklin Delano Roosevelt _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [email protected] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
