Chris HoldgrafHashicorp changes the terraform license to BSL.
tl;dr if you use terraform in a product, you're gonna have to lawyer up if you do anything remotely related to what hashicorp does now or in the future.
KirstieJane@choldgraf woah! So. Like. Not an open license? Right?
@KirstieJane most definitely not. It basically says you can't use it if you're a competitor. The BSL "transforms" into an OSI-approved license after enough time has passed that the codebase at that time is no longer much value.
But the definition of "competitor" is broad and requires lawyers to determine so in practice it means you can't build anything that makes money on top of it without extensive legal counsel, IMO.
Bastian Greshake Tzovaras@choldgraf @KirstieJane yeah, the delay is so much it’s basically guaranteed to be all bit-rot by the time it’s actually open source.
@gedankenstuecke @KirstieJane also regardless of the delay the amount of uncertainty injected by their definition of "can't compete with us" means that the license is much riskier (read: needs lots of legal counsel) if you're trying to build a product or service that uses terraform
@choldgraf @KirstieJane yeah, just to say that you can't get around that uncertainty by just waiting it out!