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I mean, HashiCorp is one of the companies leading the charge on that, are they not? They chose to stop using open source licenses for new versions of their soft
by jakelazaroff 3y ago
I mean, HashiCorp is one of the companies leading the charge on that, are they not? They chose to stop using open source licenses for new versions of their software. That’s certainly their prerogative — they obviously decided that being an open source company didn’t fit their business model — but don’t then turn around and blame the Linux Foundation for picking up the ball that you dropped when you couldn’t make the numbers work.
- zeroCalories 3y agoI guess the lesson is to never open source your code? Or maybe to not trust "open source" and demand GPL?
- sausagefeet 3y agoOr maybe make the paid portion of your product (TFC/TFE) good enough that people want to use it?
- erik_seaberg 3y agoThe lesson is not to sign a copyright assignment unless you’re comfortable with the maintainers potentially doing this with your work later.
- rbanffy 3y agoGPL would prevent others from modifying their work and turning it into a competing product. AGPL would have prevented others from modifying their work and turning it into a competing service. BSD and other "liberal" licenses are great if you want to make adoption easy, but makes you vulnerable to Amazonification.
- darkarmani 3y agoHashicorp wouldn't have a successful product if they hadn't open sourced their code. Now that they are entrenched, they want to change rules (and whine about it) because it makes them more money.