Comment by pabs3
3 months ago
Anyone know if MinIO AIStor is legal? AFAICT MinIO didn't have a CLA and there are 559 non-@minio.io commit authors in the git history, which could be an AGPL violation if they didn't get contributor approval for the license change. Or is AIStor a fresh codebase written from scratch?
Edit: some discussion of this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46136871
MinIO had a de facto CLA. MinIO required contributors to license their code to the project maintainers (only) under Apache 2. Not as bad as copyright assignment, but still asymmetric (they can relicense for commercial use, but you only get AGPL). https://github.com/minio/minio/blob/master/.github/PULL_REQU...