Terraform, Vault, Nomad etc by HashiCorp moving away from Open Source
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HashiCorp Abandons Open Source for Business Source License
https://thenewstack.io/hashicorp-abandons-open-source-for-business-source-license/
Like many other companies, HashiCorp has dropped the open source approach that gave its products their start for the source-available Business Source License (BSL).
- HashiCorp is moving its products previously licensed as Open Source away from it to Business Source License (BSL) moving forward
- Terraform is a popular Infrastructure as Code tool used for provisioning cloud resources like AWS, Azure among others
- Terraform version 1.5.5 and earlier are still open source
- there is a push for a community maintained open source fork if this decision is not reversed, OpenTF
Gruntwork response on the problem with BSL
- https://blog.gruntwork.io/the-future-of-terraform-must-be-open-ab0b9ba65bca?gi=be31818bcbaf
- Gruntwork is a creator of the tool Terragrunt which is an open source wrapper around Terraform to provide some additional tools for it