> What should they do? I'd advocate AGPL, but xGPL licenses are avoided like a plague, because Free Software is not "closed forks" friendly, and companies hate

> What should they do? I'd advocate AGPL, but xGPL licenses are avoided like a plague, because Free Software is not "closed forks" friendly, and companies hate to open everything like that. They can offer it under more than one license if they want. I, for one, would be pretty happy if they offered it under both BuSL and AGPL. - business users who are afraid of copyleft could use Terraform under the terms of the BuSL - the F/OSS community could distribute it under the terms of the AGPL and freely build on it - competitors to Hashicorp would have a choice: + open their whole stack and compete in the market based on the quality of their services and support alone (admirable but very tough) + negotiate and pay HashiCorp to license Terraform under special, proprietary terms Probably, many of the same companies who want to fork Terraform now would still want to. But I'd be satisfied and it would likely shift the conversation in a way beneficial to Hashicorp's reputation.