[victormy]

Simply forking it won't work. The legal risks have been well-documented. Under their AGPL + Commercial model, the moment your fork gets too popular, MinIO can just shut you down. This is exactly why the smart money and talent have already moved on to systems like RustFS, SeaweedFS, and Garage instead of trying to maintain a doomed fork.

[true_religion]

The only risk is if you’re trying to bootstrap your competitors with their open source contribution, and have a paid private integrations.

AGPL means you cannot do this. This is less of a risk, than it is the explicit intention of the Licence.