As belts tighten, corporate #opensource evolves—further and further from the ideals of Free Software.

Partly due to bad actions by "freeloaders," but also companies putting too much value in building code, and not enough on community and support. https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/hashicorp-adopts-business-source-license

HashiCorp adopts Business Source License

HashiCorp adopts the Business Source License to ensure continued investment in its community and to continue providing open, freely available products.

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@geerlingguy Seems less of "not placing value on the community" as much as the code (or their exclusive hosting of it) is what's making them money. Companies who only sell support don't make a lot of money, except for Red Hat, and evidently it wasn't enough for them either.

Related question: does the MPL still apply to older versions of the software and source code with which it was bundled, or does this somehow retroactively affect the old code?

@blake @geerlingguy "That is why today we are announcing that HashiCorp is changing its source code license from Mozilla Public License v2.0 (MPL 2.0) to the Business Source License (BSL, also known as BUSL) v1.1 on all future releases of HashiCorp products. HashiCorp APIs, SDKs, and almost all other libraries will remain MPL 2.0."
@viktor @geerlingguy I read the rest of that and somehow skipped over the "all future releases" part... 🤦️
@blake @geerlingguy I missed the last sentence of that paragraph the first time I read it 😂 When I went to copy it, I saw it.