# About PGSTY Silo

> The PGSTY SILO manifesto, license, trademark, attribution, and security policy for the project and its documentation.

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LLMS index: [llms.txt](/llms.txt)

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Silo is a community fork of MinIO, published and maintained by [Pigsty](https://pgsty.com). This section collects the terms the project publishes about itself: the [**Manifesto**](/about/manifesto/) with the project's public commitments, what license the code and the documentation are under, how the MinIO name is used, whom this documentation is attributed to, and how to report a security issue.

Silo is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by MinIO, Inc. MinIO® is a registered trademark of MinIO, Inc.; see the [**Trademark Notice**](/about/trademark/).

Meet the [**community contributors**](/about/contributors/) behind SILO, Console,
mcli, shared packages, and this documentation. Issue reports and unmerged pull
requests are recognized alongside merged work and security disclosures.

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Section pages:

- [The PGSTY SILO Manifesto](/about/manifesto/): PGSTY SILO's commitments in eleven articles: what the project maintains, what it refuses to promise, and where to check both.
- [License](/about/license/): The Silo software is licensed under AGPLv3; this documentation is licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- [Trademark Notice](/about/trademark/): MinIO is a trademark of MinIO, Inc. Silo is an independently maintained community fork, with no affiliation.
- [Attribution](/about/attribution/): Copyright, derivation, and translation notices for the Silo documentation, and how to credit it when you reuse it.
- [Contributors](/about/contributors/): SILO community contributors, contribution records, and recognition policy.
- [Security Policy](/about/security/): How to report a vulnerability in PGSTY SILO, and where fixed issues are published.
- [Security Advisories](/about/security-advisories/): The SILO advisory ledger: CVE and SN identifiers, fix commits, affected areas, release boundaries, and dependency security updates.