The RPM, DEB and APK payloads carried no license material at all, and
the OCI image copied LICENSE and CREDITS but not NOTICE. For an AGPL
distribution that is not defensible packaging. Every delivery channel
now carries the same license set:
- nfpm packages install LICENSE and NOTICE under /usr/share/doc/silo/.
The entries are declared once per packager because nfpm only honors
type: license on rpm and silently drops such entries from deb and apk
-- the rpm keeps its %license flag, deb and apk carry plain files at
the same path. CREDITS stays out of the OS packages deliberately: at
1.8MB it would dominate an otherwise ~40MB payload.
- The OCI image gains /licenses/NOTICE next to the existing LICENSE and
CREDITS, in the Dockerfile and in both context-staging paths (the
make docker target and docker-release.yml).
- The GoReleaser archives list their files explicitly; the default
globs would keep missing NOTICE.
NOTICE's first line now reads 2015-2025 to match the banner constants
fixed in b57275be3 -- it had kept upstream's stale 2015-2023 claim --
and verify-rebrand.sh pins both NOTICE copyright lines.
The payload locks move in the same commit: sign-release-rpms.sh expects
the six-file listing, and the test-release validation asserts presence,
count, the rpm %license flag, and sha256 equality of the packaged
LICENSE and NOTICE against the repository files across all three
formats and both architectures.
Also dropped the unit's WorkingDirectory=/usr/local, a leftover from
upstream's /usr/local/bin install layout. Debian policy 9.1.2 keeps
packages out of /usr/local entirely; the binary already installs to
/usr/bin and the service does not depend on its working directory.
Verified locally with nfpm v2.47.0 (the CI-pinned version): built all
six packages via package-release.sh, then ran the test-release
validation step verbatim (extracted from the workflow YAML) and the
signing script's payload comparison against them in an Ubuntu 24.04
container -- both pass. Built the arm64 image from the real
Dockerfile.goreleaser and confirmed /licenses holds CREDITS, LICENSE
and NOTICE. make rebrand-guard passes with the new NOTICE pins.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Feng Ruohang <rh@vonng.com>
Brings the server in line with the contribution and copyright policy
already adopted in pgsty/mc.
Copyright terms were derived from the clock: startupBanner overwrote the
ldflags-injected CopyrightYear with time.Now().Year() and printed it as
the end of MinIO, Inc.'s term, so every January would have extended the
upstream copyright claim past the 2025 end of upstream development, and
release builds silently discarded the injected year. Both banners now
credit MinIO, Inc. for 2015-2025 and PGSTY from 2025 through the
release-stamped year, falling back to the current year in source builds.
NOTICE names PGSTY as the holder of the fork's modifications, matching
the banners and the packaging vendor field.
Contributions are accepted inbound=outbound under AGPL-3.0-or-later with
no CLA - the core is Copyright MinIO, Inc., so the combined work can
never be relicensed and a CLA would buy nothing. What a fork carrying a
downstream delta does need is provenance, so DCO 1.1 sign-off is now
mandatory and enforced by a workflow that rejects unsigned non-bot
commits. CONTRIBUTING documents sign-off, repair, cherry-pick provenance,
dual copyright headers, trailer preservation across squash merges, and
that assistive-tooling trailers carry no authorship or copyright claim.
verify-rebrand.sh pins the copyright split and the policy files so
neither can regress.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Feng Ruohang <rh@vonng.com>
README, README_ZH, SECURITY, COMPLIANCE, CONTRIBUTING, NOTICE,
code_of_conduct, the vulnerability and PR-etiquette documents, the GitHub issue
and pull request templates, and the docs/ tree all present Silo as the product.
The Grafana dashboards under docs/metrics/prometheus/grafana/ have their panel
titles and descriptions rebranded while every minio_* query, label and
expression is left alone, so existing alerts and recording rules keep matching.
The distinction the review demanded is applied per hit rather than by
search-and-replace:
- Product and command text becomes Silo and silo: install and run instructions,
systemd examples, compose services, download links, badges.
- Protocol and interface text keeps MinIO: MINIO_* variables, minio_* metrics,
x-minio-* headers, /minio/* routes, .minio.sys, arn:minio, and API field and
error names.
- Attribution keeps MinIO and gains the fork's own: the AGPL obligations,
original copyright, CREDITS and NOTICE stay, with the modification notice
added alongside rather than replacing them.
- Historical and third-party references are left as facts, not rewritten for
brand tidiness.
README and README_ZH each carry an explicit non-affiliation notice, document
the side-by-side package migration including the
/etc/systemd/system/silo.service.d/10-legacy-user.conf drop-in for keeping a
legacy UID/GID, and state that recursive chown is never performed. The trademark
attribution uses the policy's approved "based on MinIO technology" wording, not
the shortened form the policy rejects.
github.com/pgsty/minio links are left in place and labelled transitional. The
repository has not been renamed, and rewriting them now would produce documented
URLs that 404 until the cutover; they change in the cutover commit together with
the goreleaser release target, the OCI source label and the raw-content branch.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Feng Ruohang