Today I am #ThursdayThankful for the #NGinX #FreeSoftware web server project.
It turns out that #SoftwareFreedom is essential: When a #corporate owner decides they will dismiss freedom for users and developers, the #RightToFork the project under a different name, gives much-needed continuity and allows the community to continue.
@brembs FLOSS is a necessary condition for the #RightToFork.
https://eve.gd/2023/07/26/whats-the-point-of-having-open-scholarly-infrastructures-and-how-do-we-test-their-resilience/
As for #protocols.io, the terms of use are very clear that it's proprietary https://www.protocols.io/terms, with some parts being CC-BY. To be properly forkable it would need
1) the website itself and its software to be freely licensed,
2) the database to be CC-0 (it's only metadata anyway),
3) data dumps to be published somewhere (at least PMC?).
