Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks

Re:Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks by kevin_thibedeau on Monday March 11, 2019 @05:48PM (#19363167)

The only claimants to your source code are those to whom you've distributed binaries built from GPL sources. Anyone else can pound sand.

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Re:Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks by ktjfi on Monday March 11, 2019 @06:00PM (#19363283)

If you were the author of a GPL piece of code whose licence was violated, and the EFF came to you and said "we'll pay for the lawyers and in exchange we get publicity", most people would say yes.

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Re:Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks by hisham_hm on Monday March 11, 2019 @06:11PM (#19363381)

not the case for AGPL: then it's everyone who has access to your online service built with the code.

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Re:Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks by j16sdiz on Monday March 11, 2019 @11:11PM (#19365054)

I don't think it works like that.

This is a copyright license at its heart. It is a contract between the copyright-owner and the service owner. The end user is just 3rd party.

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Re:Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks by TeMPOraL on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @03:34AM (#19366104)

Wait, isn't the whole point of AGPL that the "user" entitled to the source code is now the service user, i.e. potentially everyone?

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Re:Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks by lvh on Monday March 11, 2019 @06:38PM (#19363567)

That's true, but GGP comment mentioned AGPL presumably for a reason :)

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