Comment by Aeolun
4 years ago
> Any derivative works of AGPL-licensed software must also use the AGPL.
It’s a viral license. It infects everything it touches.
4 years ago
> Any derivative works of AGPL-licensed software must also use the AGPL.
It’s a viral license. It infects everything it touches.
Not if you just deploy it as is, like a service. (which it's intended to) If you write an application which uses MinIO over HTTP, you have no obligation to release your application code.
False
AGPL is purposefully designed to eliminate the Embrace, Extend, Extinguish model of Cloud providers, where the provider embraces a popular open source projects, creates a "service" from it, extends that service in order to make their flavor non-compatible with out contributing upstream in an effort to extinguish the original project.