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Metasploit 3.0Metasploit 3.0Posted Mar 29, 2007 2:58 UTC (Thu) by error27 (subscriber, #8346)Parent article: Metasploit 3.0
There was a license change in the new version. You can't include it in a for profit product anymore.
It doesn't affect me, but it seemed like something people might want to know.
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Metasploit 3.0 Posted Mar 29, 2007 11:36 UTC (Thu) by gypsumfantastic (guest, #31134) [Link] So it's no longer Free Software? It's become proprietary. For shame.
It seems odd that Our Editor missed this sad state of affairs.
Metasploit 3.0 Posted Mar 29, 2007 13:30 UTC (Thu) by jake (editor, #205) [Link] > So it's no longer Free Software? It's become proprietary. For shame.
It's somewhere in between open source and proprietrary, if I remember my definitions correctly. All of the source is available and can be modified and distributed (as patches). What you cannot do is sell it for more than the cost of distribution.
> It seems odd that Our Editor missed this sad state of affairs.
Well, in this case, our Editor is hardly to blame. This author *is*. FWIW, it was on my mental list to get into the story, but never made the actual list or (obviously) the actual story. Kudos to error27 for pointing it out.
jake
as patches Posted Mar 29, 2007 15:37 UTC (Thu) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054) [Link] Modified versions can only be distributed as patches? Ugh, that puts it in qmail and pineland, too far from free land for my taste.
as patches Posted Mar 29, 2007 18:03 UTC (Thu) by kh (subscriber, #19413) [Link] Agreed, but there is hope for pine. I have heard alpine may be distributed with Ubuntu soon.
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