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

[Lynx <lynx () enemy org>]

On Nov 04, 2005 at 1844 +1100, Serg B. appeared and said:
> 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.
As far as I understand the licensing terms

http://www.nessus.org/plugins/index.php?view=faq

Nessus is and will stay to be GPLed. You have to register the plugins
depending on what you want to do with it. I believe that this is similar
to Snort where the code is GPL, you get a bundle of community-supplied
signatures and have to register/pay for Sourcefire's signatures.

Best,
René.

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