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
When Canonical originally had such a CLA to contribute to Ubuntu it was pretty controversial (I don’t think it was common at all at the time), this situation with HashiCorp perfectly demonstrates why.
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ouch… Well, with the fork they wont have to do that anymore… so thats good.
When Canonical originally had such a CLA to contribute to Ubuntu it was pretty controversial (I don’t think it was common at all at the time), this situation with HashiCorp perfectly demonstrates why.