HashiCorp adopts the Business Source License to ensure continued investment in its community and to continue providing open, freely available products.

No more open source.

Vendors who provide competitive services built on our community products will no longer be able to incorporate future releases, bug fixes, or security patches contributed to our products.

  • g5pw@feddit.it
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    1 year ago

    Aw man… and I was just thinking about deploying Nomad in my homelab…

      • SwingingKoala@discuss.tchncs.deOP
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        1 year ago

        Not affected today, many businesses were started from home. We already know it’s not possible any more to build a business using hashicorp products as they could pivot at any moment and then you’d be “competing” and in breach of license.

        • vojel@feddit.de
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          1 year ago

          Yes but is that affecting you businesswise, for example using terraform for proviosioning infrastructure for a customer? As far as I understand this move it affects companies like gruntwork who makes a business on top of terraform with terragrunt. Dont get me wrong, I do dislike this change also but saying „it is not open source anymore“ is just wrong. It is still open source but its usage changed for companies making a dollar here or there with technologies they dont develop.

          • SwingingKoala@discuss.tchncs.deOP
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            1 year ago

            It is still open source but its usage changed for companies making a dollar here or there with technologies they dont develop

            That’s not open source.

            • vojel@feddit.de
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              1 year ago

              It is. You mix free software and open source, their often but not always the same.

                  • SwingingKoala@discuss.tchncs.deOP
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                    1 year ago

                    Stop shilling proprietary licenses in this community.

                    1. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor

                    The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.

                    Also go look up the word discrimination.