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Comment by ufocia

9 days ago

Yes the software is under AGPL. Go forth and forkify.

The choice of AGPL tells you that they wanted to be the only commercial source of the software from the beginning.

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phoronixrly  9 days ago

> the software is under AGPL. Go forth and forkify.

No, what was minio is now aistor, a closed-source proprietary software. Tell me how to fork it and I will.

> they wanted to be the only commercial source of the software

The choice of AGPL tells me nothing more than what is stated in the license. And I definitely don't intend to close the source of any of my AGPL-licensed projects.

  • regularfry  9 days ago

    > Tell me how to fork it and I will.

    https://github.com/minio/minio/fork

    The fact that new versions aren't available does nothing to stop you from forking versions that are. Or were - they'll be available somewhere, especially if it got packaged for OS distribution.

    • phoronixrly  9 days ago

      The only packages I find of aistor, are binary packages. Not only that, the aistor license agreement explicitly states the following:

      > You may not modify, reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or create derivative works of the Software.

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  • 0x457  5 days ago

    > And I definitely don't intend to close the source of any of my AGPL-licensed projects.

    If a commercial company has "core" version under AGPL, it usually means their free version is an extended demo of the commercial product.