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Terraform, Vault, Nomad etc by HashiCorp moving away from Open Source (thenewstack.io)
submitted 1 year ago by thewitchofcalamari@bookwormstory.social to c/technology@beehaw.org
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  • 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

Gruntwork response on the problem with BSL

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[-] Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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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