The source code for nginx is hosted in the US, BSD-licensed and has the american F5.com as the primary maintainer, sponsor, and steward of NGINX.
In 2022 some of the developers forked it into Angie, the code of which is hosted in the US as well.
In 2024 one of the lead developers forked nginx into freenginx due to F5’s interference, bringing it more in line with its initial grassroots origin. They have a self-hosted Mercurial repo (and a mirror in the US) and the domain seems to be controlled by the lead developer.
If an app is open source why does it matter who controls it?
If an app is in Git, then you have a fully copy locally, so why does it matter who hosts it?
Git is and was absolutely decentralised by nature. Everyone can have their competely independent copy of the copy and can send diffs/patches as emails, text files, whatever.
There’s no concept of a central server in Git. GitHub is not the center of git. There is no Center.
Then because most young devs couldn’t properly understand git and we’re too lazy to learn, you all adopted a pattern called “rebasing” which has now become gits default. It plays into the idea that GitHub is the single source of truth when it need not be.
Anyway there’s an off topic git rant for you.
I know
git≠ github.com.I also know legal jurisdictions play a role in life, especially lately.
Thankfully the license is permissive and i’ve been preferring freenginx, but i was curious to know others’ opinions.