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by dspillett 678 days ago
I'm not sure that interpretation is correct. I don't read the intention that way (but I'd have to reread the licenses on detail to refresh myself before speaking more definitively).

Having said that, the fact that minio's documentation answers the question with a shrug and says "lawyer up" (see https://github.com/minio/minio/blob/master/COMPLIANCE.md) seems quite telling.
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camgunz 677 days ago
I mean, they have a strong incentive to get you to buy a commercial license. I'm not surprised they're uninterested in giving you free legal advice in service of not paying them.
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dspillett 677 days ago
That isn't what they say though. Their statement reads as “we don't actually fully know how the licence we have chosen works”.

The answer to “can I do X with your product?” shouldn't, in a reasonable world, constitute expensive legal advice. It feels rather shifty to me.

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camgunz 676 days ago
Maybe, but that's more a comment about Minio than AGPLv3.
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