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

14 pointsby rmorizalmost 2 years ago

7 comments

janosdebugsalmost 2 years ago
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...
sam_on_the_webalmost 2 years ago
Found the important part in the terraform license, for anyone else interested:<p><pre><code> &gt; 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&#x27;s products.</code></pre>
jbotzalmost 2 years ago
This appears to be the MariaDB BSL, see <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mariadb.com&#x2F;bsl-faq-mariadb&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mariadb.com&#x2F;bsl-faq-mariadb&#x2F;</a><p>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.
edvinbesicalmost 2 years ago
Official FAQ: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hashicorp.com&#x2F;license-faq#What-did-HashiCorp-announce-today-(Aug-10)" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hashicorp.com&#x2F;license-faq#What-did-HashiCorp-ann...</a>
lprovenalmost 2 years ago
Main discussion here:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=37081306">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=37081306</a>
beanjuiceIIalmost 2 years ago
Hashicorp goes out of business
grepfru_italmost 2 years ago
Time to fork!