HashiCorp Adopts Business Source License

Re:HashiCorp Adopts Business Source License by mperham on Friday August 11, 2023 @02:28AM (#37085723)

A license controls what OTHERS can do with your source. You, the copyright holder, can do anything you want.

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Re:HashiCorp Adopts Business Source License by asymmetric on Friday August 11, 2023 @03:11AM (#37085958)

Thanks, I stand corrected. How does this play with third-party contributions? Others might be the copyright-holders of a sub-section of the code.

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Re:HashiCorp Adopts Business Source License by JimDabell on Friday August 11, 2023 @04:35AM (#37086410)

You ask contributors to sign a copyright assignment before accepting their changes.

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Re:HashiCorp Adopts Business Source License by duckmysick on Friday August 11, 2023 @04:37AM (#37086423)

Projects can have a Contributor License Agreement (CLA). It gives the owner of the project a right to republish (or copyright) the contributions. You can't contribute to the project without signing it.

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Re:HashiCorp Adopts Business Source License by m4rtink on Friday August 11, 2023 @08:22AM (#37087874)

This might also prevent a lot of people from contributing due to the added paperwork.

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