[kwlug-disc] Terraform licensing

[Mikalai Birukou]

> I just learned about Terraform and BUSL-ing it.
>
> Quote from announcement
> https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/hashicorp-adopts-business-source-license
>
> """
>
> ... there are other vendors who take advantage of pure OSS models, and
> the community work on OSS projects, for their own commercial goals,
> without providing material contributions back. We don’t believe this is
> in the spirit of open source ...
>
> """
>
> Remember we were saying that GPL is a way to ensure contribution comes
> back and it is a way to ensure your contributors are respected? AGPL is
> for cloudy formation, I guess.
>
>
> Smug comment: can we say that push towards BSD/MIT style licensing shows
> cracks in comparison to using (A)GPL's ? Terraform size cracks?

More fallout is mentioned in 
https://blog.massdriver.cloud/posts/the-changing-face-of-open-source/