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  • Subject: [SM-Grimoire-Bugs] [Bug 13774] New: nessus: license changed to proprietary one
  • Date: 12 May 2007 11:19:53 -0000

http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13774

Summary: nessus: license changed to proprietary one
Product: Codex
Version: test grimoire
Platform: All
URL: http://www.nessus.org/
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: P2
Component: security
AssignedTo: sm-grimoire-bugs AT lists.ibiblio.org
ReportedBy: m.spitzbarth AT gmx.de


Casting of nessus fails, because the source url is not available anymore.

A quote from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nessus_%28software%29
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On October 5th 2005, Tenable Network Security [2], the company Renaud Deraison
co-founded, changed Nessus 3 to a proprietary (closed source) license [3]. The
Nessus 3 engine is still free of charge, though Tenable charges for support,
the
latest vulnerability audits and the ability for Nessus to perform
configuration
audits of UNIX and Windows systems.

The Nessus 2 engine and a minority of the plugins are still GPL. Some
developers
have forked independent open source projects based on Nessus as a consequence.
Examples are OpenVAS and Porz-Wahn [4]. Tenable Network Security has still
maintained the Nessus 2 engine and has updated it several times since the
release of Nessus 3.
------------------------------

The nessus.org download section presents a non-GPL license even for
downloading
nessus 2.
I suggest that nessus is either moved to z-rejected or removed completely,
since
the package suite seems to be unmaintained.
The affected packages are nessus-core, nessus-plugins and nessus-libraries.

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