HashiCorp Adopts Business Source License

Re:HashiCorp Adopts Business Source License by nine_k on Thursday August 10, 2023 @07:07PM (#37082874)

Why, quite clearly:

> Organizations providing competitive offerings to HashiCorp will no longer be permitted to use the community edition products free of charge under our BSL license. Commercial licensing terms are available and can enable use cases beyond the BSL limitations.

Looks to me very similar to (A)GPL + commercial dual licensing, for instance.

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Re:HashiCorp Adopts Business Source License by tedivm on Thursday August 10, 2023 @08:22PM (#37083514)

I wish they'd just use the AGPL then.

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Re:HashiCorp Adopts Business Source License by sneak on Friday August 11, 2023 @11:16AM (#37089648)

There are many of us who regard the AGPL as a nonfree license, just like the BSL.

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Re:HashiCorp Adopts Business Source License by ec109685 on Thursday August 10, 2023 @11:43PM (#37084868)

Quite clearly? That is extremely vague and leaves up to Hashicorp’s interpretation and could change as Hashicorp’s portfolio expands.

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Re:HashiCorp Adopts Business Source License by nine_k on Friday August 11, 2023 @01:08AM (#37085308)

In other words: if you have doubts, the answer is "no".

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Re:HashiCorp Adopts Business Source License by iavael on Tuesday August 15, 2023 @07:33AM (#37132641)

GPL permits this: "Organizations providing competitive offerings to HashiCorp will no longer be permitted to use the community edition products free of charge"

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