On: MinIO is now in maintenance-mode

[eproxus]

Yeah, that page is horrendous and looks super sketchy. It looks like a very professional fishing attempt to get unsuspecting developers to download malware.

They have a lot of obviously fake quotes from non-existent people at positions that don’t even mention what company it is. The pictures are misgendered and even contain pictures of kids.

Feels like the whole page is AI generated.

[runiq → eproxus]

They have a CLA that assigns copyright to them: https://github.com/rustfs/rustfs/blob/5b0a3a07645364d998e3f5...

So, arguably worse than MinIO.

[everfrustrated → runiq]

The _only_ reason to require a CLA is because you expect to change the license in the future. RustFS has rug-pull written all over it.

[stormking → runiq]

How would you run a project like this? People come and go. People do a one-time contribution and then you never hear from them again. People work on a project for years and then just go silent. Honestly, credit where credit is due, but how is a project like this supposed to manage this?

[PunchyHamster → stormking]

You can have CLA without assigning copyright to the project.

You don't need assignment to the project if you are not planning to change project's license.

You do need assignment to the project if you need to ever rugpull the community and close the code

[speedgoose → stormking]

You could pick a license and not plan to relicense later. Like Linux.