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.

  • ck_@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    That is a rather short sighted interpretation of what is happening I feel. Essentially the company is moving from FLOSS to “free as in beer”, which will very likely affect the product in the long run.

    • julianwgs@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Not quite, it‘s only restricting competitors and so all companies and home labbers can still use it for free and contribute as in free speech.

      However this can bring a lot more financial sustainability to a project. I don‘t know the specifics, but the main problem is that companies make profit of the software, but don’t invest enough money back into the product. This cannot be good for users. Open source must be financially stable.

      Also right now all those competitors (and users) can create a fork and maintain it. So it is up to the community what will happen to the project.