HashiCorp Abandons Open Source for Business Source License
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Like many other companies, HashiCorp has dropped the open source approach that gave its products their start for the source-available Business Source License (BSL).
  • 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.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    That means HashiCorp could only take contributions licensed under the BSD or public domain, or under a CLA. The fork would be none of those.