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Re:OpenTerraform – an MPL fork of Terraform after HashiCorp'... by rubiquity on Friday August 11, 2023 @11:16AM (#37089638)
Do you resell services that would be competing with Vault and Consul? If not I don’t see how this applies to your company’s product.

Side note: I’m not defending the license change and generally think most of HashiCorp’s products are not that great.

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Re:OpenTerraform – an MPL fork of Terraform after HashiCorp'... by alephnerd on Friday August 11, 2023 @11:33AM (#37089858)
You can't use BSL licensed products in production without paying the provider.

Plenty of companies are using Vault and Consul in this manner.

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Re:OpenTerraform – an MPL fork of Terraform after HashiCorp'... by morgante on Friday August 11, 2023 @11:47AM (#37090036)
That is not accurate. BSL does not prevent simply using the products, it prevents packaging them into a competing offering.

Review the FAQ here: https://www.hashicorp.com/license-faq

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Re:OpenTerraform – an MPL fork of Terraform after HashiCorp'... by yellowapple on Friday August 11, 2023 @03:52PM (#37093195)
> BSL does not prevent simply using the products, it prevents packaging them into a competing offering.

The problem is that "competing offering" is poorly defined.

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