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Change: Drop term Greenbone OpenVAS and just use OpenVAS
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It's better to just mention OpenVAS as a former name of Greenbone
Community Edition.
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bjoernricks committed Mar 4, 2024
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When the OpenVAS project was launched, it only consisted of an engine for scanning
vulnerabilities.

Shortly after that, the company Greenbone was founded to achieve
Shortly after that, the company [Greenbone] was founded to achieve
professional support for vulnerability scanning. Greenbone started to lead the
development of OpenVAS, added several software components and turned OpenVAS
into a vulnerability management solution while keeping the values of free
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brand changes. Therefore, after the release of the OpenVAS 9
framework, the following releases got named GVM.

With this in mind, Greenbone OpenVAS could mean
With this in mind, OpenVAS could mean

- a vulnerability scanner (OpenVAS Scanner),
- a name for a software framework of several components (GVM),
- a software project led by Greenbone (Greenbone Source Edition),
- a source code release of a vulnerability management solution (OpenVAS 9, GVM 20.08), or
- a software project led by the company [Greenbone] (Greenbone Source Edition),
- a source code release of a vulnerability management solution (OpenVAS 9, GVM 20.08, ...), or
- a community of users and developers (Greenbone Community)

depending on the context.
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# Greenbone Community Edition – Documentation

The Greenbone Community Edition covers the actual source code of the [Greenbone
OpenVAS](https://www.openvas.org/) stack.
The Greenbone Community Edition covers the actual source code of the Greenbone
Vulnerability Management software stack, which is also known as [OpenVAS](./history.md).

It is available as regularly updated source code snapshots/release archives
confirmed to work and as source code checkouts directly from the git source code
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