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HashiCorp changes license from Mozilla Public License 2.0 to Business Source License 1.1 on their products (www.hashicorp.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by starman to c/programming

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (17 children)

What does this mean?🤔

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (16 children)

Given I was recently involved in minimising the impact of Lightbend's similar move earlier this year, AFAIU it means their products will be conditionally open source. They'll be free to use for non-commercial use but you'd need to pay for anything else.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (13 children)

There is no such thing as "conditionally open source." The license terms you describe are just "not open source."

If they actually gave a shit about commercial entities contributing back, they should've gone AGPL3. This is just a money grab and yet another example of how permissive licensing isn't good enough and everything should be copyleft.