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Re:Minio Changes License to AGPL by jen20 on Friday April 23, 2021 @11:12PM (#26921940)
> Except of course the corporate folks who are licensing under AGPL who can and do then take contributors code and make available a commercial version that no one else is allowed to make available.

This is only true if there is a CLA, and contributors sign it.

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Re:Minio Changes License to AGPL by random5634 on Sunday April 25, 2021 @01:33AM (#26930542)
The work around folks use is to claim just new stuff is agpl and skip contribs sign off. After stuff is mixed gets harder to pull apart. AWS just had to go through that exercise with elastic search
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