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If someone contributed significant changes to the GPL code,
it would pretty nuch have to be incorporated into Nessus2. Otherwise, it
wouldn't really be GPL any more.
I suspect that's something Renaud hopes would actually
happen, i.e. this change may inspire people to contribute major code. Often,
folks who are capable of contributions won't bother if someone else is already
doing it. In other words, Renaurd could be considered a victim of his own
productivity, :)
Okay, here's the silly question of the day: Does this mean that, if
someone were to contribute something significant to the GPL code, it would not
be incorporated in Nessus 2? After all, it would not be a bug fix but it would
be an architectural improvement by a contributor instead of
Tenable.
Who's laughig out there! I heard somebody laugh! Come on,
raise your hand! :-D
Clifford Collins
Renaud Deraison wrote:
On Oct 8, 2005, at 19:06, Benjamin Tomhave wrote:
Where I am potentially concerned is in the
situation where a small company
may have deployed Nessus
internally to scan systems. Many small companies
cannot
afford commercial products, which is why they oftentimes turn to
open
source software. Will these companies now be required to
pay a license fee?
Let me quote myself from my
initial email on the subject :
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To make things simple :
- Nessus 2 : GPL, will have regular releases containing bug fixes
- Nessus 3 : free of charge, contains major improvements
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Not only Nessus 3 is free of charge, but we intend to
make it free on the Windows platform as well.
Also, it has
been insinuated by people who don't know better that Nessus 2.x would
not be maintained. This is false. We have no EOL for Nessus 2.x. There
is an EOL for Nessus 2.2.x, which will be made public when Nessus
2.4.x is released, though. Nessus 2.x-GPL is NOT a dead branch. The
only thing is that you won't see any architectural improvements to it.
I think a lot of people do not understand what the Nessus engine is
: it's a platform to run plugins effectively. When we improve a
NASL plugin, the improvement works both on Nessus 2.x and on 3.x.
So sticking to Nessus 2.x is fine if you don't want to upgrade.
-- Renaud
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