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phoronixrlyyesterday at 6:16 PM2 repliesview on HN

It is also useful to remember that MinIO has historically held to an absurd interpretation of the AGPL -- that it spreads (again, according to them) to software that communicates with MinIO via the REST API/CLI.

I assume forks, and software that uses them will be held to the same requirements.


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NegativeKyesterday at 11:26 PM

They're not the only ones to claim that absurdity.

https://opensource.google/documentation/reference/using/agpl...

aheppyesterday at 9:13 PM

As long as I'm not the one who gets sued over this, I think it would be wonderful to have some case law on what constitutes an AGPL derivative work. It could be a great thing for free software, since people seem to be too scared to touch the AGPL at all right now.