[kwlug-disc] Terraform licensing

[Jason]

The OpenTF Foundation is an interesting pushback against Hashicorp's
move to a business source license for Terraform.  Worth checking out:
https://opentf.org/

On Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 12:39 PM Mikalai Birukou <mb at 3nsoft.com> wrote:
>
>  From history: Jenkins is a fork of Hudson project, I never heard about.
> Oracle came for Sun's open source stuff, something like this.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_(software)
>
>
> > I just learned about Terraform and BUSL-ing it.
> >
> > Quote from announcement
> > https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/hashicorp-adopts-business-source-license
> >
> > """
> >
> > ... there are other vendors who take advantage of pure OSS models, and
> > the community work on OSS projects, for their own commercial goals,
> > without providing material contributions back. We don’t believe this is
> > in the spirit of open source ...
> >
> > """
> >
> > Remember we were saying that GPL is a way to ensure contribution comes
> > back and it is a way to ensure your contributors are respected? AGPL is
> > for cloudy formation, I guess.
> >
> >
> > Smug comment: can we say that push towards BSD/MIT style licensing shows
> > cracks in comparison to using (A)GPL's ? Terraform size cracks?
>
>
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