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
    9·
    1 year ago

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

      • SwingingKoala@discuss.tchncs.deOP
        8·
        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
          2·
          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
            5·
            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.

      • ck_@discuss.tchncs.de
        6·
        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.

      • g5pw@feddit.it
        5·
        1 year ago

        Sure, but it’s a question of principle. I try to use and support FLOSS software if possible.

        • SwingingKoala@discuss.tchncs.deOP
          2·
          1 year ago

          The reason I went with terraform is really because of the demand on the job market. Oh well, if I have never done that in the past and am still doing fine 🤷

          • ck_@discuss.tchncs.de
            1·
            1 year ago

            Then you are good either way. All of the IaC tools generally revolve around the same principles, they just express them in different ways. Learning terraform is definitely not a waste, you’ll be able to transfer what you learned to other tools like pulimi, CDK or what have you pretty easily.

            If you were to buy into a technology for a long time project, then I’d encourage you giving the alternatives a closer look.