"MinIO: S3-Compatible Object Storage You Own — and the AGPL Licence You Must Respect"
"MinIO is a high-performance, S3-compatible object store with ~60k stars — but it is AGPL-3.0, and that licence is the part most teams underestimate. A 5,000-word teardown of what it delivers, the 2021 licence shift, the commercial-embedding trap, the source-only community distribution, and exactly where your objects go."