[Jasp3r]

MinIO is not actually open source, their source code is just public.

The company I work at spun up a MinIO instance, and we got hounded by MinIO lawyers claiming we had to pay because "hosting MinIO alters the source because of injecting configuration" and therefore violates their open source license.

There have been multiple hacker news threads about this:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35328316

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32148007