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HashiCorp adopts the Business Source License for future releases of its products

by rmoriz on 8/10/23, 9:54 PM with 7 comments

  • by janosdebugs on 8/10/23, 10:58 PM

    This is quite sad. I'm also curious how projects that integrate Terraform, such as the OpenShift Installer will deal with this. I'm pretty sure there is at least one project in that ecosystem that spins up OCP instances on demand. I wonder if Hashicorp would consider that competing...

  • by sam_on_the_web on 8/10/23, 10:01 PM

    Found the important part in the terraform license, for anyone else interested:

        > Additional Use Grant: You may make production use of the Licensed Work,
                      provided such use does not include offering the Licensed Work
                      to third parties on a hosted or embedded basis which is
                      competitive with HashiCorp's products.

  • by jbotz on 8/10/23, 11:06 PM

    This appears to be the MariaDB BSL, see https://mariadb.com/bsl-faq-mariadb/

    One important feature is that it says the code reverts to true Open Source (GPL 2.0) at some point (4 years) in the future.

  • by edvinbesic on 8/10/23, 11:02 PM

  • by lproven on 8/11/23, 1:31 PM

  • by beanjuiceII on 8/11/23, 12:42 AM

    Hashicorp goes out of business

  • by grepfru_it on 8/11/23, 12:40 AM

    Time to fork!