HashiCorp Adopts Business Source License

Re:HashiCorp Adopts Business Source License by cthalupa on Friday August 11, 2023 @02:07PM (#37091858)

It's source available. Which is not the same thing as open source.

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Re:HashiCorp Adopts Business Source License by rowanseymour on Friday August 11, 2023 @03:27PM (#37092853)

I don't think anyone is arguing that BSL is capital O Open Source, and even the BSL licence stressses that it is not an Open Source licence. But both "closed source" and "source available" feel like poor descriptors for a project that is developed in the open and takes PRs from outside contributors.

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Re:HashiCorp Adopts Business Source License by iavael on Monday August 14, 2023 @10:15AM (#37121283)

For this case there's already an old good word "proprietary" that covers everything that's not FOSS.

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