Penetration Testing: RE: Nessus - open or closed source?

["Todd Towles" <toddtowles () brookshires com>]

www.nessus.org 

V3.0 will be closed source. I think they are going to keep the v2 line
going for a while however.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Serg B. [mailto:serg.belokamen () gmail com] 
> Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 1:44 AM
> To: Pen-Test mailingl ist
> Subject: Nessus - open or closed source?
>
> 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...?
>
>    Serg
>
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