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Terraform, Vault, Nomad etc by HashiCorp moving away from Open Source (thenewstack.io)

submitted 11 months 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

https://blog.gruntwork.io/the-future-of-terraform-must-be-open-ab0b9ba65bca?gi=be31818bcbaf
Gruntwork is a creator of the tool Terragrunt which is an open source wrapper around Terraform to provide some additional tools for it

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[-] pkulak@beehaw.org 4 points 11 months ago

No, just new versions.

[-] 1984@lemmy.today 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Not so "just". Terraform open source version went into a fork. Who will work on that one and who will continue with the hashicorp version? It's a split in the community now, and I bet most devs will continue on the hashicorp version.

[-] jarfil@beehaw.org 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I bet most devs will continue on the hashicorp version

Only the hobbyist ones. Every dev paid for by a company using the products, will be on the OpenSource fork.

It's something companies often forget: open source, and the GPL in particular, is a way for companies to cooperate. Use the AGPL if you want to prevent unfair server-side competition. Switching to the BSL is restricting cooperation to only those with less experience.

PS: IANAL, but by reading MariaDB's guidelines for the BSL, HashiCorp may not even have applied it correctly.