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

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Serg B." <serg.belokamen () gmail com>
To: "Pen-Test mailingl ist" <pen-test () securityfocus com>
Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 7:44 AM
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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