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You'd think Nutanix would have the brains to change the names of the deployed binaries, which brings up an interesting question. How do you detect license violation if the violator has replaced the brand name across the codebase?
Will revoking their license stop Nutanix from using MinIO or will they have to go to court to get them to stop? I don't see any mention of a lawsuit in the post.
They use a load of other FOSS software under the hood too, not least of which libvirt/KVM. I wonder how many other licences they're violating this way.
MinIO uses AGPL which explicitly includes network usage so Nutanix is forced to provide all patches and associated code.
https://www.nutanix.com/viewer?type=pdf&path=/content/dam/nu...
Looks like it's just there for show.
Open and shut case. Disappointing that the Nutanix engineers care so little about their peers.
Please don't blame engineers on every single issue. The engineer may not even know there's an issue here. They may be assured by their boss or legal department that they are in the clear. They may not even think about such mundane things like licensing and stuff, that's what they have higher ups for. If someone is to blame, then it's the company leadership and legal department. As much as we want to make us engineers…
Sometimes it's pretty cut and dry, just people using open source without attribution and hoping that nobody will find out. But why? MinIO is licensed under AGPL (the current versions, at least): https://github.com/minio/minio/blob/master/LICENSE It effectively mandates that the modified version needs to be made available: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Affero_General_Public_Lice... The GNU Affero General Public Li…
No idea about the relationship between MongoDB and DigitalOcean, but note that you've linked to the "community" edition; their site also shows an "enterprise" edition, which is more likely for a large entity like DigitalOcean to be using.
- What are the consequences for these companies?
- Do they share revenue with the open source projects?
- Can they simply distribute these services without any consequences?
- If not, When and How does a small open source project org enforce track and their license?
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Please don't blame engineers on every single issue. The engineer may not even know there's an issue here. They may be assured by their boss or legal department that they are in the clear. They may not even think about such mundane things like licensing and stuff, that's what they have higher ups for. If someone is to blame, then it's the company leadership and legal department. As much as we want to make us engineers…
You are being downvoted but I actually think there are some fair points that you are making. We use a lot of FOSS in our company. We pay licenses and contribute very little (our job isn't to improve gitlab or docker, we are shipping a software product on top of that), but I wouldn't know where exactly we are in the legal-illegal spectrum to save my life. I consider myself an employee, not an entrepreneur. If I was an…
Any recommendations on MinIO forks or open-source alternatives with more welcoming licenses? They changed their license from Apache recently. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MinIO#Re-licensing
[1] https://drewdevault.com/2020/07/27/Anti-AGPL-propaganda.html
Any recommendations on MinIO forks or open-source alternatives with more welcoming licenses? They changed their license from Apache recently. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MinIO#Re-licensing
There are quite a few Storage projects out there with a S3-compatible API storage, that can be used in place of Minio such as Ceph, Openstack Swift, SeaweedFS, etc.. Of course, they all differ in subtle ways, so you have to try for yourself.