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Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks

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Re: Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks

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Post by admax88q »

yingw787 wrote: post #93
admax88q wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You could AGPL and sell proprietary exceptions. Amazon won't touch AGPL code.

Maybe. At least our company won't touch GPL code; as one colleague described to me, if you violate a proprietary license, a company will come after you for money, while violating a GPL license gets the EFF involved who will come after you for your source code. I'm still wary, though. I could imagine if the resultant fines or source code releases from violating a GPL license weren't a strong enough deterrent, you coul…

I mean if you're planning to violate the license then does it really matter what the license is? Your company sounds shady if you evaluate software icenses based upon how much it will hurt when you violate them.

Re: Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks

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Post by detaro »

admax88q wrote: post #401
yingw787 wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe. At least our company won't touch GPL code; as one colleague described to me, if you violate a proprietary license, a company will come after you for money, while violating a GPL license gets the EFF involved who will come after you for your source code. I'm still wary, though. I could imagine if the resultant fines or source code releases from violating a GPL license weren't a strong enough deterrent, you coul…

I mean if you're planning to violate the license then does it really matter what the license is? Your company sounds shady if you evaluate software icenses based upon how much it will hurt when you violate them.

There's a difference between "planning to violate the license" and worrying about what happens if you do because someone didn't pay attention.

Re: Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks

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Post by rmc »

yingw787 wrote: post #50

So...what is the future of enterprise open source? Is there a future for enterprise open source? If you start a company and open source your core/clients, your product becomes part of AWS, and AWS runs you into the ground. If you mix in proprietary licenses to protect yourself, AWS forks your core, adds in open-source licensed clients, then runs you into the ground (and you lose open-source contributors/supporters as…

Or use copyright licences which the big tech companies are scared of. Affero GPL or some of the more radical "copyfarleft" licences.

Re: Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks

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Post by rocky1138 »

jimjag wrote: post #375
rocky1138 wrote: post #220

Are we all going to move back to Apache httpd?

Why not? Apache 2.4 with the Event MPM is async and event-driven, just as fast as nginx, lower latency, more fully compliant w/ RFC specs, robust reverse proxy w/ load balancing and dynamic configuration, super-fast caching,... and fully and completely open source.

Hey you're preaching to the converted. Tbh I have no idea why we all moved away in the first place. I was fine with Apache.
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