Comment by liviux

3 months ago

Fork in Linux foundation incoming. Minio will revert in 1-2 years, but too late, community will move on and never return, reputation lost forever

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phoronixrly  3 months ago

Just watch them harass fork users with proprietary stacks as they used to:

https://github.com/minio/minio/issues/13308#issuecomment-929...

https://github.com/minio/minio/discussions/13571#discussionc...

  • orphea  3 months ago 

      > you may be violating AGPLv3 if you are using MinIO to build commercial products or using it for commercial purposes

    Yeah, this is bullshit. I wish the guy used his own advise and spoke to a lawyer :)

  • speedgoose  3 months ago

    Oh no, I used MinIO once or twice for some unlicensed software.

    Should I contact a MinIO salesman to purchase an enterprise license ASAP or is it fine if I license my kids and advent of code solutions under the AGPLv3 license ?

  • ahepp  3 months ago

    Wait, what's the consensus on this? Are they saying that using object storage over a standard network API which they didn't even create, makes your application a derivative work of the object store?

    Or just that the users would need to make minio sources, including modifications, freely available?

    I guess that's kind of the big question inherent to the AGPL?

    • tetha  3 months ago

      From my understanding, you would not be allowed to sell an "S3 compatible storage" as a service based off of Minio or another AGPL licensed S3-compatible storage solution, especially if you modify the source code of minio in any way and then serve that to your customers.

      If you use Minio or another AGPL licensed service internally to support your own product without a customer ever touching it's API, it should be fine.

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