Maxim Dounin announces the freenginx project.
As such, starting from today, I will no longer participate in nginx development as run by F5. Instead, I’m starting an alternative project, which is going to be run by developers, and not corporate entities:
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He’s russian. Trademarks and copyright doesn’t matter.
That might be true inside Russia, but not in the rest of the world. F5 could sue in the US and force the registrar responsible for the .org TLD to hand the domain to them.
In his place, I would chosen something related but different enough to avoid trademark infringement, like “Freeginx”. IANAL, but I believe sometimes all it takes is one letter to keep lawyers away.
IMO he would have been better off reversing the letters to something like XNGIN2 or some other clever play on the old theme.
Besides the new name being problematic it’s plain aweful.
Feels like Gentoo ==> Funtoo – Gentoo is a infinitely better name IMO.
Does it actually make sense to call it free nginx? It seems like that’d just cause confusion, especially if the projects diverge. Most of the time when this happens they choose a new name (like MariaDB vs MySQL)
That being said, I wish the project all the best. I use nginx both professionally and personally so I’ll be keeping an eye on this.
Kudos!
I hope they will not switch to AGPL.
“Freen Ginks”
I sympathise with the dude dev but corporate loves corporate; I dont think the project is going to attract much funding if it’s purely a ‘libre’ fork.
It’s weird but I’m siding with the company on this one. With what little context we’ve been given the dev sounds like a stereotypical reddit moderator.
