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Minio will always be 100% free software / open source. We have no plans to add any proprietary extensions or hold back on features for paying customers only. --
by krishnasrinivas 10y ago
Minio will always be 100% free software / open source. We have no plans to add any proprietary extensions or hold back on features for paying customers only. -- Minio Team
- cyphar 10y agoThen why not make the license AGPLv3-or-later, to avoid other people creating proprietary forks? I get that it's not a common occurence within the Golang world, but nothing will change unless more Golang projects start making their code copylefted.
- y4m4b4 10y agoGNU AGPL is an ideal license for free software projects. We are a strong supporter of the GNU project. We chose Apache License for Minio purely for adoption reasons. Most of our users build proprietary software around Minio and their legal council has a default NO policy towards GNU licenses. Besides, FSF has also approved Apache License v2 as a free software license. Proprietary forks are OK with us. It will be too expensive to maintain branches of their own and catch up with the upstream.
- cookiengineer 10y ago> It will be too expensive to maintain branches of their own and catch up with the upstream. Haha, you guys are awesome! You've totally figured it out. Stay awesome!