Tenable discusses the Nessus 3 release

Tenable discusses the Nessus 3 release
Federico Biancuzzi, 2005-11-24

SecurityFocus interviews Ron Gula to get a glimpse of Tenable's upcoming free (but closed-source) Nessus 3 vulnerability scanner. The discussion looks at license changes, community involvement, daemon security, new features, GPL open-source versus free, NASL, and more.

Expand all | Post comment

Tenable discusses the Nessus 3 release 2005-11-25
Anonymous (4 replies)

Re: Tenable discusses the Nessus 3 release 2005-11-26
Ron Gula

Re: Tenable discusses the Nessus 3 release 2005-11-27
Tsume

The problem was people taking Nessus 2, and hiding the programs in a product. Giving away the source, but making it seem like they've really done the work. Which is allowed by the GPL. One example is how I would be able to take Nessus 2, and place anything I want in an appliance. Then I could sell it and not really even mention Nessus, because all I would need to do is give away the source. Basically people were taking credit legally by building appliances and packaging a "fork" of nessus with it.

[ reply ]

Link to this comment: http://www.securityfocus.com/comments/columns/371/32738#32738

Re: Tenable discusses the Nessus 3 release 2005-11-27
Anonymous

Tenable discusses loss of free software community 2005-11-26
Anonymous (1 replies)

Re: Tenable discusses loss of free software community 2005-11-30
kRinSH

People tried to contribute - but you rejected them. 2005-11-27
Anonymous (1 replies)

Re: People tried to contribute - but you rejected them. 2005-11-28
Ron Gula

Tenable discusses the Nessus 3 release 2005-11-28
Anonymous

Tenable discusses the Nessus 3 release 2005-11-29
Anonymous

OS Support (Was "Tenable discusses the Nessus 3 release") 2005-11-30
Richard Johnson

Tenable discusses the Nessus 3 release 2005-11-30
Anonymous