Freenginx license -- copyleft would help

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 02:06:06PM +0000, ersjtwmb at addy.io 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/