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HashiCorp adopts the Business Source License for future releases of its products
- sam_on_the_web 3y agoFound 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.
- janosdebugs 3y agoThis 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...
- edvinbesic 3y agoOfficial FAQ: https://www.hashicorp.com/license-faq#What-did-HashiCorp-announce-today-(Aug-10) https://www.hashicorp.com/license-faq#What-did-HashiCorp-ann...
- jbotz 3y agoThis appears to be the MariaDB BSL, see https://mariadb.com/bsl-faq-mariadb/ 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.
- grepfru_it 3y agoTime to fork!
- beanjuiceII 3y agoHashicorp goes out of business
- lproven 3y agoMain discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37081306 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37081306