RE: How to correctly modify nmap.nasl?

You mention the nmap license which was news to me. Preferring to go to the
source rather than someone's interpretation I did so
(http://nmap.org/data/COPYING) and you are right. He's free to use whatever
license he wants, but to portray it as a GPL license is misleading given his
terms.

Tim Doty  

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On Behalf Of Michel Arboi
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 9:15 AM
To: Mercer, Jeff C - Raleigh, NC
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: How to correctly modify nmap.nasl?

On Thu, 8 May 2008 08:25:19 -0500
"Mercer, Jeff C - Raleigh, NC" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Considering how wildly popular Nmap is, how widely used it is

I'm sorry, but this is not a reference. 
"Billions of flies cannot be wrong, etc."

> and the many advantages to Nmap

Which are? 

> I've never understood why Tenable Security is so dead-set against it.

I am not working for Tenable, but I wrote nessus_tcp_scanner, and I am
quite convinced that it is quicker, more reliable, and less resource
greedy than Nmap.
Scan 65K ports on a Solaris with Nmap: it will take half an hour. Try
with nessus_tcp_scanner, it will finish in a couple of minutes.

> Other than the ususal egomania of 'Well I didn't write it so I hate
> people using it' crap.

Fyodor gave "his" interpretation of the GPL and twisted it to forbid
a commercial tool from calling Nmap and reading the result. 
After all, he is the author, so he may choose whatever licence he
wants. But I think that you sent your pathetic troll to the wrong
target.

> Yes, many folks have no clue how to correctly use Nmap and use it with
> Nessus. You will not eliminate those people nor the noise they create.
> It's better to teach and expand knowledge than to restrict and play
> power games.

Many folks have no clue on how to use Nessus correctly. We'd rather
spend time on this topic.

> That being said, an import plugin would be damn useful.

The current nmap.nasl plugin *can* import nmap -oG results.

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