MinIO, formerly a COSS dual-licensor under AGPL, recently announced that its open source repository is in “maintenance mode.”

The company has apparently rebranded its commercial product to “AI-stor.”

This move happened after a “contentious license change” and “removal of administrator functionalities from the console.” A fork may be on the horizon.

MinIO is an open-source object storage server. It was briefly notorious for a public spat with Nutanix over claimed license violations. The post for that litigating-in-the-press initiative ironically said that MinIO “strongly believe in keeping our software open source – the best quality software is made with community collaboration, so people are free to innovate and improve. Open source licenses are essential to ensuring people know where their software comes from, and can keep it secure through transparency. It also guarantees basic freedoms of use and distribution.”

We strongly believe, until we don’t.