Maxim Dunin, one of the three active key developers of Nginx, announced the creation of a new fork - FreeNginx. Unlike the Angie project, which also forked Nginx, the new fork will be developed solely as a non-profit community project. FreeNginx is positioned as the main descendant of Nginx - βtaking into account the details - rather, the fork remained with F5.β FreeNginx's stated goal is to ensure Nginx development is free from arbitrary corporate interference.
The reason for the creation of the new project was disagreement with the policy of the management of the F5 company, which owns the Nginx project. F5, without the consent of the developer community, changed its security policy and switched to the practice of assigning CVE identifiers to mark issues that potentially pose a threat to user security as vulnerabilities (Maxim was against assigning CVEs to these errors, since they are present in experimental and non-default code ).
After the Moscow office was closed in 2022, Maxim retired from F5, but under a separate agreement retained his role in development and continued to develop and oversee the Nginx project as a volunteer. According to Maxim, changing the security policy is contrary to the concluded agreement and he can no longer control the changes that developers from the F5 company make to Nginx, therefore, he can no longer consider Nginx as an open and free project developed for the common good.
Source: opennet.ru