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In October 2005, to generate income for the company and to stop empowering competition, Nessus became proprietary software, rather than open-source software via the GNU General Public License. [5] [6] At that time, the software was forked; OpenVAS became the open-source software version of the program.
On October 5 2005, with the release of Nessus 3, the project changed from the GNU General Public License to a proprietary license. [3] The Nessus 2 engine and some of the plugins are still using the GNU General Public License, leading to forks based on Nessus like OpenVAS [2] [4] and Greenbone Sustainable Resilience. [5]
Greenbone Vulnerability Manager began under the name of OpenVAS, and before that the name GNessUs, as a fork of the previously open source Nessus scanning tool, after its developers Tenable Network Security changed it to a proprietary (closed source) license in October 2005. [3]
The tz database partitions the world into regions where local clocks all show the same time. This map was made by combining version 2023d with OpenStreetMap data, using open source software. [1] This is a list of time zones from release 2025a of the tz database. [2]
NESSUS is a general-purpose, probabilistic analysis program that simulates variations and uncertainties in loads, geometry, material behavior and other user-defined inputs to compute probability of failure and probabilistic sensitivity measures of engineered systems. Because NESSUS uses highly efficient and accurate probabilistic analysis ...
The development of OpenNTPD was motivated by a combination of issues with current NTP daemons: difficult configuration, complicated and difficult to audit code, and unsuitable licensing. [5] OpenNTPD was designed to solve these problems and make time synchronization accessible to a wider userbase.
Microsoft Windows 10 October 2018 Update (version 1809) [89] Openptp from Flexibilis Oy is GPL licensed open source implementation of the IEEE 1588-2008 (Version 2) PTP specification. [90] PTP Track Hound, [91] free tool from Meinberg to record, visualize and analyze PTP network traffic; PPSi, a multi-platform ptp implementation developed by ...
Free and open-source software (FOSS) is software available under a license that grants users the right to use, modify, and distribute the software – modified or not – to everyone free of charge. FOSS is an inclusive umbrella term encompassing free software and open-source software .