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https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/12/13/russia-nginx-fsb-raid-a68606
Russian police raided the Moscow offices of a popular U.S.-owned web server over a Russian search engine giant's ownership claim of its source code, Forbes Russia reported Thursday.
Authorities raided Nginx's Moscow office based on a copyright infingement claim by Russian oligarch Alexander Mamut's Cyprus-registered investment vehicle Lynwood, Forbes Russia cited an unnamed source at the web server as saying. Mamut became part owner of Russia's 1990s-era search giant Rambler with fellow oligarch Vladimir Potanin in 2013 and bought out Potanin's stake three years later.
"We found that Rambler Internet Holding's exclusive right to the Nginx web server has been violated by the actions of third parties," Rambler's spokesperson told Forbes.
"In this regard, Rambler Internet Holding ceded the rights to bring claims and lawsuits linked to rights violations toward Nginx to Lynwood Investments CY Ltd," it continued.
Authorities estimate Rambler's losses from the alleged copyright infringement at 51.4 million rubles ($820,000), according to a copy of a criminal case cited by Forbes and other news outlets.
(Score: 2) by loonycyborg on Saturday December 14 2019, @11:32AM (6 children)
So basically a Brit wants to destroy an opensource project made by a US(it's not actually registered in Russia) company. Russians are going to be merely victims here, along with entire opensource community.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 14 2019, @12:34PM
You should have listened to Larry Ellison and stuck to Oracle... no question of ownership there.
(Score: 2) by Mojibake Tengu on Saturday December 14 2019, @12:49PM (4 children)
FOSS can prevail with nginx, but only if the project is forked sufficiently many times and starts mutating, very soon. Nginx itself is a strategic component now, that's is why this is happening.
Otherwise, Rothschilds will kill the openness of it to secure monetization.
Respect Authorities. Know your social status. Woke responsibly.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by loonycyborg on Saturday December 14 2019, @01:12PM (1 child)
Forking won't help. If somehow those claims are found legitimate then all forks will be illegal derivative works, if not then status quo returns and thus no point in forking.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 14 2019, @07:46PM
well this is scary as shit. i'm going to wake up with cold sweats about apache tonight!
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by exaeta on Saturday December 14 2019, @08:07PM (1 child)
The Government is a Bird
(Score: 2) by Bot on Sunday December 15 2019, @08:05AM
And in this case, if APIs are deemed copyrightable you are fucked. This means when I hear the phrase "copyright on API" I reach for my revolver.
What this case would end up in IF the russian guy had a non competition clause and we were in a just world:
Plutocrat sues the world for the use of nginx.
The world awards X for the use of nginx and 2X for attempting a submarine use of nginx branded as open source. They should have known in advance, if they didn't they can sue only when they made it clear that nginx is not FOSS.
The world rewrites all stuff from the time guy was employed or switched to another browser. Those with static sites smile. The others, less.
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