Re:MinIO is now in maintenance-mode
by regularfry on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @05:35PM
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Or to offer it under a commercial licence in parallel.
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Re:MinIO is now in maintenance-mode
by Jon_Lowtek on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @07:42PM
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While that is the most common use case for CLAs, it is normally done by contributors granting a very permissive, but not exclusive, license to a legal entity like a company or foundation, in addition to the public license granted to everyone.
This is not that. This is not even a license. They want a full transfer of intellectual property ownership. Sure that enables them to use it in a commercial product, but it also enables them to sue if contributors contribute similarly to other projects. Obviously that would create a shit storm, and there is an exception with the public license, but riddle me this: can you legally make similar contributions to multiple projects that have this type of CLA?
Let us take a step back and instead look where such terms are more common: employment contracts.