MinIO repository is no longer maintained

Post by everfrustrated » Fri, Feb 13, 2026, 8:41 PM UTC

j1elo wrote: post #163

jbstack wrote: post #27

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There's nothing wrong at all with charging for your product. What I do take issue with, however, is convincing everyone that your product is FOSS, waiting until people undertake a lot of work to integrate your product into their infrastructure, and then doing a bait-and-switch. Just be honest since the start that your product will eventually abandon its FOSS licence. Then people can make an informed decision. Or, if…

The only meaningful informed decision, but sadly much less known (and I think we should talk and insist more on it), is to be wary if you see a CLA . Not all do, but most perform Copyright Assignment, and that's detrimental to the long-term robustness of Open Source. Having a FOSS license is NOT enough. Idealy the copyright should be distributed across all contributors. That's the only way to make overall consensus a…

Post by everfrustrated » Fri, Feb 13, 2026, 8:56 PM UTC

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #270

victormy wrote: post #236

First off, I don't think there is anything wrong with MinIO closing down its open source. There are simply too many people globally who use open source without being willing to pay for it. I started testing various alternatives a few months ago, and I still believe RustFS will emerge as the winner after MinIO's exit. I evaluated Garage, SeaweedFS, Ceph, and RustFS. Here are my conclusions: 1. RustFS and SeaweedFS are…

> Although many people criticize RustFS, suggesting its CLA might be "bait," I don't think such a requirement is excessive for open source software, as it helps mitigate their own legal risks. What legal risks does it help mitigate?

Post by everfrustrated » Fri, Feb 13, 2026, 9:12 PM UTC

victormy wrote: post #263

justincormack wrote: post #24

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Wrote a bit about differences between rustfs and garage here https://buttondown.com/justincormack/archive/ignore-previous... - since then rustfs fixed the issue I found. They are for very different use cases. Rustfs really is close to a minio rewrite.

I don't think this is a problem. The CLA is there to avoid future legal disputes. It prevents contributors from initiating IP lawsuits later on, which could cause significantly more trouble for the project.

Post by hdjrudni » Fri, Feb 13, 2026, 9:28 PM UTC

kube-system wrote: post #228

hirako2000 wrote: post #195

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If offering a tie in thing supposedly free of charge without warning that would end once it serves a party less profit purpose then yes. Ethics are not obligations, they are moral principles. Not having principles doesn't send you to prison that is why it isn't law. It makes you lose moral credit though.

That is ridiculous. If you buy a sandwich for a homeless person, you do not need to warn them that you won't give them another one tomorrow. If you think generosity is an obligation of slavery, you have your morals backwards. However, almost every open source license actually DOES warn that support may end. See the warranty clause. https://github.com/minio/minio/blob/master/LICENSE#L587

Post by ranger_danger » Fri, Feb 13, 2026, 10:06 PM UTC

sjpb wrote: post #301

ranger_danger wrote: post #203

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It would be interesting to see if there could be a sustainable OSS model where customers are required to pay for the product, and that was the only way to get support for it as well. Even if the source was always provided (and even if it were GPL), any bug reports/support requests etc. would be limited to paying customers. I realize there is already a similar model where the product/source itself is always free and t…

Well, I think this is what SchedMD do with Slurm? GPL code. You can sign up to the bug tracker & open an issue, but if you don't have a support contract they close the issue. And only those customers get advanced notice of CVEs etc. I'd expect nearly everyone who uses it in production has a support contract.