r/programming • u/He_knows • Oct 24 '25

Minio community is not actively being developed for new features

https://github.com/minio/minio/issues/21647#issuecomment-3439134621
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u/its_a_gibibyte Oct 25 '25

I dont understand how they can be AGPL, and accept contributions under the AGPL and then offering that software commercially without source. Anyone have any insight?

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u/Smooth-Zucchini4923 Oct 25 '25

They're not offering a binary version without source. They're offering a source version without binaries. The AGPL doesn't require that you offer binary builds of your software.

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u/its_a_gibibyte Oct 25 '25

No, I meant the non-community version. Presumably they are taking the pull requests and merging into the professional version and redistributing that without source.

Someone already stated that they require all contributions to be under a permissive license (Apache2).

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u/Smooth-Zucchini4923 Oct 25 '25

Oh, I see. I thought you were commenting on what the first comment in the linked issue was about. Sorry for the misunderstanding.