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Source: https://roem.ru/12-12-2019/281134/rambler-nginx/#comment-292... (Russian)
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I am not sure why this is being downvoted. If a Russian court determines (and/or the developer is forced to agree) that the BSD license was issued by someone who did not own the intellectual property, doesn't that create a significant legal issue for anyone who is using nginx under that BSD license since that license would no longer be valid? Doesn't the potential for this exact sort of issue point out a flaw in how…
When you say "if a Russian court determines" this sounds like an insult to me. Simply check out how recently lots of people have been convicted for nothing, for a poster, a like, for jogging, for trying to get elected, for a youtube video. I kindly ask you to stop believing that Russia is a place where unicorns shit with rainbow and courts work. No, they do not. And by not acknowledging putin's terror against us you…
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Rambler was bought by the Sberbank (the largest state-owned bank in Russia) in August this year
This is a very important detail if true!
Oh my, I still see people in the comments who naively think this is a copyright issue. Seriously? 15 years after the alleged event? With physical violence against software developers? It's only one among thousands of cases when putinists rob successful companies. The world must put more pressure on putinism, because eventually all the stolen resources turn into imprisonments of people in the country and deaths of peo…
Perhaps feeding into more conspiracies, yet it's worth to remember the recent law to "isolate" the russian internet from the rest of the world [0]. Securing control over the web server software (indeed popular for solid reasons) plays well into this lockdown objective and yields to the state a product that it would struggle to create on its own otherwise. Think of those failed attempts at creating a "national OS" to…
Oh my, I still see people in the comments who naively think this is a copyright issue. Seriously? 15 years after the alleged event? With physical violence against software developers? It's only one among thousands of cases when putinists rob successful companies. The world must put more pressure on putinism, because eventually all the stolen resources turn into imprisonments of people in the country and deaths of peo…
I am quite sure you are right this is corrupt putinism. Putin's economic system is crony capitalism. The laws mean nothing, it is all a matter of who has political corrections and pays the biggest bribe. That is why there is so little technological innovation in Russia, in spite of its being a huge developed country with a highly educated workforce (except, of course, for hacking). People with ideas know they will ju…
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If they indeed have copyright then you cannot legally fork it without them giving you licence to it. Just because you have the code doesn't mean you have the licence. All the other licences would be void.
If you contributed to nginx, do these new owners own your contributions if you submitted them under what turned out to be false pretenses ? Shouldn't all the community contributions be void because of that? That would significantly reduce nginx's worth. If not, what's to stop other companies doing this in a predatory way? Start an "open source" project, gather years of valuable contributions from a enthusiastic commu…
But since the project is under BSD license, they could make a case that they are allowed to use your changes (under that license). I'm not sure how that would eventually play out in court, though.
Software developer got greedy, rich and robbed by state actors.
Should have contributed to Apache instead.
With the original open sourcing license of nginx in doubt, it is prudent for open source projects to look into alternatives?
If you want simplest non-bloated and secure - OpenBSD's httpd is absolute king.
But for many generations of IT people Apache had (and still has) that nice homey feeling.
One of Best things that happened to IT world.
Edit: s/https/httpd :-) bloody phones and their "smart" keyboards
With the original open sourcing license of nginx in doubt, it is prudent for open source projects to look into alternatives?