Maxim, Thanks for the amazing work and your dedication all those years.
Will definitely follow freenginx and use it as my webserver of choice. A. On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 9:49 AM Archimedes Gaviola < archimedes.gavi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 2:03 AM Maxim Dounin <mdou...@mdounin.ru> wrote: > >> Hello! >> >> As you probably know, F5 closed Moscow office in 2022, and I no >> longer work for F5 since then. Still, we’ve reached an agreement >> that I will maintain my role in nginx development as a volunteer. >> And for almost two years I was working on improving nginx and >> making it better for everyone, for free. >> >> Unfortunately, some new non-technical management at F5 recently >> decided that they know better how to run open source projects. In >> particular, they decided to interfere with security policy nginx >> uses for years, ignoring both the policy and developers’ position. >> >> That’s quite understandable: they own the project, and can do >> anything with it, including doing marketing-motivated actions, >> ignoring developers position and community. Still, this >> contradicts our agreement. And, more importantly, I no longer able >> to control which changes are made in nginx within F5, and no longer >> see nginx as a free and open source project developed and >> maintained for the public good. >> >> As such, starting from today, I will no longer participate in nginx >> development as run by F5. Instead, I’m starting an alternative >> project, which is going to be run by developers, and not corporate >> entities: >> >> http://freenginx.org/ >> >> The goal is to keep nginx development free from arbitrary corporate >> actions. Help and contributions are welcome. Hope it will be >> beneficial for everyone. >> >> >> -- >> Maxim Dounin >> http://freenginx.org/ >> _______________________________________________ >> nginx-devel mailing list >> nginx-devel@nginx.org >> https://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx-devel > > > Hi Maxim, > > Sorry to hear that. Is the license still the same for freenginx? > > Thanks, > Archimedes > _______________________________________________ > nginx-devel mailing list > nginx-devel@nginx.org > https://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx-devel >
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