I do get that, it is kind of a gut punch though. I really wonder if it matters especially since the open source version may be coming out (I am not completely sold on the fork), could that kill hashicorp? I hope they keep their jobs and get to keep doing what they love. I do feel bad for the devs and others who really are put between a rock and a hard place. I do want to give them credit for their licence, I think they probably did the best with a bad situation. I am preferential towards open source but I am not an open-source/libre absolutist. I understand the hard decisions must be made when you are toiling away to get exploited by even bigger assholes like Amazon, Google, etc.
Doing what’s right is always wrong if it’s against a large corporation. I’m grateful to HashiCorp for making Terraform, but I’m absolutely done with them as a company.
Agree. A tiny text description even. I despise clicking a tracker like you tube. Glad that piped bot is here though.
Description:
Terraform infrastructure-as-code tool recently switched to a BSL license. As a result, it was forked into a new project called OpenTF. Let’s look at open-source licensing and find out why this drama occurred.
Hashicorp recently changed the license of Terraform and its other core products from MPL to BSL, restricting commercial use and preventing competitors from offering services based on the code. While this makes business sense for the now-public Hashicorp, it upset many users who saw it as undermining the open source nature of the projects. In response, the OpenTF project was launched to fork Terraform and maintain it under a truly open source license. While Terraform is not as likely to cause vendor lock-in as databases, its dominance as a developer tool could be impacted by this change and emerging alternatives. Interestingly, the video ends by humorously discouraging viewers from supporting the OpenTF project in opposition to Hashicorp’s licensing change.
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