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I'd like to hear Nutanix side of this story before sliding with one party. Awaiting for blog post from them :P

Until then here is my spicy story: - In 2019: Minio Sales contacted Nutanix (like this user mentioned https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32152645) hoping for a nice big cheque.

- 2019-2021: Nutanix cites Apache-2 license and refused to pay.

- 2021: Minio changed its license to AGPL (probably few others like Nutanix)

- 2021: Nutanix knows this and refuses to use AGPL version with their product.

- 2022: Discussion went on for another year and nothing came out from Nutanix.

- Now: Minio decided to publicly shame the company.

Strange. You spent THREE YEARS in discussion with Nutanix and still say

> we believe they may also be in violation of the GNU AGPL v3 versions of MinIO.

`may also be`? you are not even 100% sure whether they are using your AGPL v3 version? I have no clue, what the heck you were discussing for 3 years.

Moving from Apache-2.0 to AGPLv3 is a clear trap for those who use Minio as part of their commercial offering. With AGPLV3 one need to "disclose your source code" where as its not required with Apache-2.

If you started your "Open source" project with AGPL it is a different thing but to start the project under Apache-2 and few years later introducing AGPLv3 is kind of lame and unethical, IMHO. https://github.com/minio/minio/discussions/12156