Re: Re: "freenginx" open source package and "nginx" from F5 open source, potential conflict?

2024-02-27 Thread Thomas Ward
Canonical has lawyers, but as this would not be a Canonical issue as they would sync from Debian, I raised the question here first. It seems that overall consensus is I should let this sit and see what happens in the future with regards to whether F5 brings litigation or such against freenginx

Re: "freenginx" open source package and "nginx" from F5 open source, potential conflict?

2024-02-27 Thread Michael Lustfield
On Mon, 26 Feb 2024 14:59:48 -0600 Richard Laager wrote: > On 2024-02-26 11:49, Thomas Ward wrote: > [...] > > So, in effect, Maxim seems to have wanted F5 to either NOT publish a > security vulnerability for their commercial product, knowing their > customers/users had this code in

Re: "freenginx" open source package and "nginx" from F5 open source, potential conflict?

2024-02-26 Thread Richard Laager
First off, I don't know anyone involved in this. On 2024-02-26 11:49, Thomas Ward wrote: Back on February 14^th , an email went to the standard NGINX mailing list that NGINX (F5) open source development changed a lot of policies and interfered with security policy use cases I don't know

"freenginx" open source package and "nginx" from F5 open source, potential conflict?

2024-02-26 Thread Thomas Ward
Good day, debian-legal! Back on February 14th, an email went to the standard NGINX mailing list that NGINX (F5) open source development changed a lot of policies and interfered with security policy use cases enough to irritate one of the main community developers of NGINX. At that time, a