[kwlug-disc] Terraform licensing

[Jason Eckert]

The Internet commentary about this move will merely serve to describe what
is already happening: organizations (mine included) are moving from
Terraform to something else (in our case, Pulumni).
And just like Bill C-18 (Canada's Online News Act), the results will be
quite tangible.
What will be interesting to watch is how Hashicorp reacts to it over time
IMO.

On Thu, 24 Aug 2023 at 12:34, Mikalai Birukou <mb at 3nsoft.com> wrote:

>
> > 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/
>
>
>
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