Hello! On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 02:06:06PM +0000, [email protected] wrote:
> Hello, > > One of my friends told me about what is hapenning with the nginx. > I was happy since I knew that the current model could lead to something bad. > What I was the most interested in was if the project's license hase changed. > A non-copyleft license allows a company to take everything from the upstream > and add stuff to it without sharing the changes. > That is for example what happened to anonaddy.com (addy.io), > originally licensed under MIT (x11) license. > > That is why I suggest that the license should be changed so that it holds > some copyleft. > As a starting point I suggest the Mozilla Public License 2.0, which is > considered a weak copyleft license. > > I think that this aligns with the project's mission: > "[...] no longer see nginx as a free and open source project developed and > maintained for the public good." > "The goal is to keep nginx development free from arbitrary corporate actions." > > > In my opinion the stronger the copyleft the better (MPL<GPL<AGPL). > > What do you think about this? While copyleft licenses might be beneficial to prevent corporations from using the code without sharing improvements, I don't think this is a concern here. As long as there are developers who are willing to work on the project, there will be no issues with any free license. Also, as a long-time FreeBSD user and contributor, and I think that BSD license is actually better from the freedom point of view, as it does not restrict users from doing whatever they want. -- Maxim Dounin http://mdounin.ru/ -- nginx-devel mailing list [email protected] https://freenginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx-devel
