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, :)
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From: nessus-bounces@list.nessus.org [mailto:nessus-bounces@list.nessus.org]
On Behalf Of Clifford Collins
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 12:01 PM
To: Renaud Deraison
Cc: nessus@list.nessus.org
Subject: Re: followup Qs on license changes
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 :
<<
To make things simple :
- Nessus 2 : GPL, will have regular releases containing bug fixes
- Nessus 3 : free of charge, contains major improvements
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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