Trademark Notice

What the project does to avoid confusion

• The fork is published under its own name, Silo, not under MinIO’s.
• Every page of this site carries a trademark disclaimer in the footer.
• It is labeled a community fork across every distribution channel — repositories, container images, release artifacts, and this documentation.
• No claim of affiliation, endorsement, certification, or commercial relationship with MinIO, Inc. is ever made.

Why the name still appears in this documentation

A license grants rights in copyright; it says nothing about names. AGPLv3 gives anyone the right to fork and redistribute the MinIO codebase, but trademark law is a separate matter that a license does not settle.

The MinIO name appears in this documentation to identify the upstream project this work derives from, and to name the things that still carry the upstream name in practice:

• the upstream project and its history, in attribution and in prose
• the wire protocol, API surface, and S3 compatibility statements
• command names, configuration keys, environment variables, binary names, and error strings — part of the software’s compatibility contract
• content carried over from the MinIO documentation, where renaming would break the correspondence between the text and the software it describes

Other marks

“Pigsty” and “PGSTY” refer to the Pigsty project and its maintainers, who publish Silo. Amazon S3 is a trademark of Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates; references to S3 describe protocol compatibility only. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

See also

• License — AGPLv3 for the software, CC BY 4.0 for this documentation
• Attribution — copyright stack and derivation of this documentation