alt Hacker NewsWhat a story. EOL the open source foundation of your commercial product, to which many people contributed, to turn it into a closed source "A-Ff*ing-I Store" .. seriously what the ...
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Well, you can not have a product without having "AI" somewhere in the name anymore. It's the law.
What's the problem? Surely people will fork it
I still don't understand what the difference is.
What is an AI Stor (e missing on purpose because that is how it is branded: https://www.min.io/product/aistor)
This is why I don't bother with AGPL released by a company (use or contribute).
Choosing AGPL with contributors giving up rights is a huge red flag for "hey, we are going to rug pull".
Just AGPL by companies without even allowing contributor rights is saying, "hey, we are going to attempt to squeeze profit out and don't want competition on our SaaS offering."
I wish companies would stop trying to get free code out of the open source community. There have been so many rug pulls it should be expected now.
Didn't contribute to MinIO, but if they accepted external contributions without making them sign a CLA, they cannot change the license without asking every external contributor for consent to the license change. As it is AGPL, they still have to provide the source code somewhere.
IANAL, of course