After strongly opposed by Russia and open source technology community, the Russian Internet company Rambler said it would abandon criminal proceedings against NGINX company .
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Rambler spokesman said it will instead continue to require by way of a civil action nginx source ownership in an interview with ZDNet interview. The decisions taken at the Rambler board meeting on Monday.
Last week, Russian police raided NGINX company office in Moscow, and took away NGINX co-founder Igor Sysoev and Maxim Konovalov, creator lgor Sysoev also nginx server project. Two founders were released on the same day, but their smart phones have been detained Russian police.
Earlier Rambler NGINX Group filed a copyright infringement lawsuit, claiming that it has full ownership nginx Web server code. Rambler represents nginx Igor Sysoev developed at the time as the company's system administrator, so they are the legitimate owner of the project. Sysoev had also indicated that it was created during the nginx rambler.ru work.
In such a way to deal with criminal copyright issues, which are never seen in open source projects copyright dispute, the incident triggered a strong reaction from the industry. Most people protested against the Russian scientific community Rambler practice, the major media have also audible.
Many people have pointed out, Rambler is to make such a copyright infringement lawsuit after the acquisition of NGINX F5 Networks for $ 670 million, but this amount is greater than the full value of the Rambler.
In fact, since nginx project was first released in the past 15 years, Rambler has never expressed its source to impose ownership requirements, and, NGINX and Rambler have experienced their own acquisition process, in this process, never raised or claims nginx ownership issues. So people can not help but think that Rambler suddenly do so, and abnormal criminal manner, the purpose is money. Even NGINX co-founder of Maxim Konovalov was released last week bluntly whole thing is an act of intimidation, he said: "The huge sums of money obtained from F5 Networks acquisition is obvious, then we can see that they have a share the desire ...... this is typical of extortion, it's that simple . "
Eventually these negative news reports Rambler forced to change the practice, first of all, it voted against Lynwood Investments, the company on behalf of its investigation of potential violations of NGINX; secondly, Rambler also promised to contact law enforcement departments, and withdrew previously filed criminal proceedings. But Rambler also said it would continue to investigate potential violations NGINX, but no longer is the way the criminal proceedings, but through the civil courts.