License
Silo carries two separate licenses. The software and the documentation are distributed under different terms, and each inherits the license its upstream work already used.
| What | License | Where |
|---|---|---|
silo server | GNU AGPLv3 | pgsty/minio |
mcli client | GNU AGPLv3 | pgsty/mc |
| This documentation | CC BY 4.0 | pgsty/silo-docs |
Software: AGPLv3
Silo is a fork of MinIO, which has been distributed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 since 2021. That license is irrevocable for code already released under it — the legal basis on which this fork exists. Silo keeps the same license: no relicensing, no added restrictions, no open-core carve-outs.
In practice, AGPLv3 lets you run, study, modify, and redistribute Silo; if you offer a modified Silo to users over a network, you must offer those users the corresponding source of your modified version.
Read the full license text before acting on any summary, including this one.
Documentation: CC BY 4.0
Everything published on this site is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0) — the same license the upstream MinIO documentation used. The full legal text is reproduced verbatim in the documentation repository.
You are free to share and adapt this documentation, including commercially, provided you give appropriate credit, link to the license, and indicate whether changes were made. You may not impose legal or technological measures that restrict others from doing anything the license permits.
Attribution is the only substantive obligation; Attribution gives you a ready-to-copy credit line along with the full copyright stack.
What the license does not cover
A license grants rights in copyright. It says nothing about names. Permission to use the MinIO codebase and documentation is not permission to use the MinIO trademark — see the Trademark Notice.
Disclaimer
Both licenses provide the work as-is, without warranties or conditions of any kind. See Section 5 of CC BY 4.0 and Sections 15–17 of AGPLv3 for the complete disclaimers of warranty and limitations of liability.
See also
- Attribution — copyright stack, derivation, and how to credit this documentation
- Trademark Notice — how the MinIO name is used here
- Security Policy — how to report a vulnerability