HashiCorp Adopts Business Source License

Re:HashiCorp Adopts Business Source License by fishpen0 on Thursday August 10, 2023 @06:35PM (#37082598)

If they think we'll go crawling back to their 100x more expensive 6-7 figure Terraform Enterprise garbage just because we can't use spacelift anymore, then I'll show them the team of engineers we can hire for the same dollars to move the whole stack to pure pulumi or crossplane

The bald faced disingenuous nature of this change here is wild. They can't compete at their pricing because their pricing is absolutely insane over what the market can bear and they refuse to accept it.

They are going out of their way to make it less expensive to stop using terraform altogether right as so many new options have entered the market

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Re:HashiCorp Adopts Business Source License by fishnchips on Thursday August 10, 2023 @07:16PM (#37082961)

Spacelift co-founder here - please don’t panic. We will make sure you can continue to use Spacelift :)

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Re:HashiCorp Adopts Business Source License by candiddevmike on Thursday August 10, 2023 @07:33PM (#37083103)

You, humanitec, and env0 should start a community fork of pre-BSL Terraform and donate it to the CNCF.

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Re:HashiCorp Adopts Business Source License by Coryodaniel on Thursday August 10, 2023 @10:15PM (#37084318)

Massdriver would contribute here.

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Re:HashiCorp Adopts Business Source License by fishnchips on Thursday August 10, 2023 @10:50PM (#37084548)

I believe it's a bit too early to make this call but based on the experience of interacting with Terraform the binary it would be absolutely amazing for the community if Terraform could be turned into a library that can become a building block for higher level services.

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Re:HashiCorp Adopts Business Source License by mattl on Sunday August 13, 2023 @02:01PM (#37112365)

I really hope this happens.

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Re:HashiCorp Adopts Business Source License by gravlaks on Friday August 11, 2023 @04:08AM (#37086271)

I don't know the details of BSL, but can HashiCorp now require compensation/$$$ from Spacelift, Scalr, Env0, etc? In that case, these products can be forced to offer similar pricing as Terraform Cloud.

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Re:HashiCorp Adopts Business Source License by kdmccormick on Friday August 11, 2023 @10:09AM (#37088849)

IANAL but I believe the BSL restrictions only apply to new upstream code versions. All HashiCorp repos can and always will be usable under MPL as they were up until the moment immediately before the license change.

In other words: if you hard fork now, you don't need to pay.

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