• HashiCorp is moving its products previously licensed as Open Source away from it to Business Source License (BSL) moving forward
  • Terraform is a popular Infrastructure as Code tool used for provisioning cloud resources like AWS, Azure among others
  • Terraform version 1.5.5 and earlier are still open source
  • there is a push for a community maintained open source fork if this decision is not reversed, OpenTF

Gruntwork response on the problem with BSL

  • jarfil@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    I bet most devs will continue on the hashicorp version

    Only the hobbyist ones. Every dev paid for by a company using the products, will be on the OpenSource fork.

    It’s something companies often forget: open source, and the GPL in particular, is a way for companies to cooperate. Use the AGPL if you want to prevent unfair server-side competition. Switching to the BSL is restricting cooperation to only those with less experience.

    PS: IANAL, but by reading MariaDB’s guidelines for the BSL, HashiCorp may not even have applied it correctly.