Suggest to rename project

Cesar L. C. ceau74 at gmail.com
Mon Feb 19 03:47:26 UTC 2024


Hello...

The name I propose is:

SuperServerX

Regards.

El dom, 18 feb 2024, 3:24 p. m., Maxim Dounin <mdounin at mdounin.ru> escribió:

> Hello!
>
> On Sun, Feb 18, 2024 at 09:08:04PM +0330, Reza Mahdi wrote:
>
> > Hello, all
> >
> > As others say, F5 can do many things, unfortunately. I think the main
> > force lever of corporation is the name. Personally love the word nginx
> > but ant derivative about it can make trouble specially for Mr. Dounin.
> >
> > I suggest to change the name. By the way it's Mr. Dounin's project.
>
> The "freenginx" name expresses the goals of the project very well,
> and therefore I would like to preserve the name as is, even if it
> implies some risks.
>
> IANAL, but from my understanding the name "freenginx" is
> sufficiently different from the "NGINX" trademark F5 has.  And
> there is a quite similar precedent in the past, the FreeBSD
> project and BSD trademark.
>
> If F5 will nevertheless decide to make a legal action against the
> project, renaming the project would always be an option.
>
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