HashiCorp Adopts Business Source License

Re:HashiCorp Adopts Business Source License by alexandre_m on Thursday August 10, 2023 @10:48PM (#37084537)

You have to acknowledge that all these OSS projects officially backed by a corporation don't want you to contribute certain features that are part of their enterprise offering. As soon as there's an "enterprise" tier, contributions are not only based on their merit, but also evaluated as a threat to their business model.

Sometimes it's not even obvious for external contributors, but there may be some small overlap with other paid features that are part of their product roadmap.

If a project on Github only has maintainers from the corporate side, you can be certain that they will ultimately drive the product for their own interest solely.

We should always pay close attention to the governance model of projects we depend on or that we wish to contribute to.

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Re:HashiCorp Adopts Business Source License by jupp0r on Friday August 11, 2023 @04:38AM (#37086427)

Of course, but the major difference is that if I don't like the maintainers, I can create a fork, build a community around it and happily run it in production. Imagine where nodejs would be right now if they had been BSL licensed in the iojs times.

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