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HashiCorp adopts Business Source License (www.hashicorp.com)
submitted 1 year ago by SwingingKoala@discuss.tchncs.de to c/foss@beehaw.org
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No more open source.

Vendors who provide competitive services built on our community products will no longer be able to incorporate future releases, bug fixes, or security patches contributed to our products.

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[–] wiki_me@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

People might not like this change, but if it helps them makes money that gets put back into the project maybe that is a good thing (for those who does not know, it converts to a open source license after four years), maybe that is better then a open core model.

[–] Zapp@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah. I've always thought timed open source was probably a sweet spot, but I don't have a lot of trust that companies will actually follow through on the open license at the end, so it doesn't buy my goodwill just yet.

[–] wiki_me@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

IANAL but don't think they can opted out of it , it's part of the license

Effective on the Change Date, or the fourth anniversary of the first publicly available distribution of a specific version of the Licensed Work under this License, whichever comes first, the Licensor hereby grants you rights under the terms of the Change License, and the rights granted in the paragraph above terminate.

[–] Zapp@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Neat.