Re: followup Qs on license changes

Mercer, Jeff wrote:

> Tenable is a company that makes money off of appliances that uses Nessus. So
> they hire programmers to work on Nessus. They've decided to write a bunch of
> proprietary code and create a new version of Nessus and not GPL it. In other
> words, the code has ALREADY FORKED.
>  
You can put an interesting spin on that. If Tenable had come out saying
"Nessus 2 will always be GPL, but we now have a new, improved commercial
product called 'Kentauros', and by the way it's free to use too!", some
people might not have become so upset.

PS: Totally OT, but where did the name Nessus come to be associated with
a vuln scanner? I can't figure any linkage between Centaurs and vuln
scanners.  :-)

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Jason Haar
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