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One of the arguments is that there are many non-Hashicorp contributors to Terraform, not to mention the larger ecosystem, who want a say in keeping their work f
by sverhagen 3y ago
One of the arguments is that there are many non-Hashicorp contributors to Terraform, not to mention the larger ecosystem, who want a say in keeping their work free. This argument is even extended to Hashicorp currently only spending less than a handful of fte's on Terraform maintenance. If you subscribe to those views, you turn the "taking a free ride" argument on its head.
- mborch 3y agoI'll add that at the end of the day, a maintainer of open source needs to tend to its garden in order to receive contributions. This is a case of HashiCorp failing to do that on multiple levels (devoting too few resources, changing licenses, etc). So people leave to form new communities and that's only natural.
- charcircuit 3y agoThose contributors work will still be free for the rest of time under MPL 2.0. The change now is that new changes will take 4 years until they become MPL 2.0, but until then those new change's source is still available for people to work with, fix bugs, and adapt to their business's needs.