full-disclosure - Call to participate: GNessUs security scanner

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Date: Tue Oct 11 09:14:24 2005
From: varcher at denyall.com (Vincent Archer)
Subject: Call to participate: GNessUs security scanner

On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 01:34:06AM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu wrote:
> 2) The Nessus crew can't easily un-GPL the code either.  The most practical way
> to do that would be to release a Nessus 3.0 that shares absolutely zero of the
> code, and under whatever new license they want.

Not strictly correct. The Nessus crew, being the original creators of the
software, and copyright holders, can release all of *their* code under a
second and separate license at will.

Emphasis on *their*: all code contributed by third parties was licensed
under the GPL for Tenable, and thus must be removed from the non-GPL
version of Nessus. That's what Arnaud points out: there is very very few
parts of Nessus that were contributed by the outside community. Once those
parts are gone, "Nessus 3.0" can go on, even if it shares 95% of its code
with the GPL Nessus 2.2.5 initially.

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