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Re:MinIO is now in maintenance-mode by EgoIncarnate on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @11:33PM (#46143839)
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...
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Re:MinIO is now in maintenance-mode by yencabulator on Friday December 05, 2025 @01:29PM (#46165246)
That's so weird. Your contribution is a derived work based on AGPL, so it must be AGPL...

The number of weird incompetent things the Minio people have done is surprisingly high.

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