HashiCorp adopts Business Source License
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HashiCorp adopts Business Source License
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Re: HashiCorp adopts Business Source License
#2I love hashicorp's software. I just wish their enterprise licensing models weren't so outlandishly expensive for small to medium companies. I wouldn't go so far as to call their vault pricing outright predatory, but it comes close.
Re: HashiCorp adopts Business Source License
#3Inevitable end for every open source company since the free money ended. What bothers me is that wording is vague enough.
> HashiCorp considers a competitive offering to be a product or service provided to users or customers outside of your organization that has significant overlap with the capabilities of HashiCorp’s commercial products or services.
So, consider there is no cost estimate service and you built a thing that got popular (https://github.com/infracost/infracost). Then after 2 years Terraform Cloud catches up. What happens? Are you out of business?
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#4I’m a full time engineer, working on OSS for more than a decade.
As much as I love open-souce, I get the point that there are a bunch of freeloaders using stuff and not contributing back.
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#5Nothing wrong with this imo. I actually hope more open source projects start with a business source license if their ultimate goal is to become a SaaS platform.
I think we've seen time and time again large enterprises abusing the spirit of open source for their own monetary gain, contributing nothing back, and just acting in bad faith.
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#6I’m a full time engineer, working on OSS for more than a decade. As much as I love open-souce, I get the point that there are a bunch of freeloaders using stuff and not contributing back.
Out of curiosity what is your definition of a freeloader? Is someone who’s been coding but hasn’t made a single OSS commit a freeloader ?
Re: HashiCorp adopts Business Source License
#7I love hashicorp's software. I just wish their enterprise licensing models weren't so outlandishly expensive for small to medium companies. I wouldn't go so far as to call their vault pricing outright predatory, but it comes close.
Particularly when they yanked the okta/mfa feature from OSS, that was pretty hostile.
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#8I’m a full time engineer, working on OSS for more than a decade. As much as I love open-souce, I get the point that there are a bunch of freeloaders using stuff and not contributing back.
Out of curiosity what is your definition of a freeloader? Is someone who’s been coding but hasn’t made a single OSS commit a freeloader ?
It sounds like there are companies selling Terraform with a wrapper on top and not paying Hashicorp anything.
Re: HashiCorp adopts Business Source License
#9I’m a full time engineer, working on OSS for more than a decade. As much as I love open-souce, I get the point that there are a bunch of freeloaders using stuff and not contributing back.
If you don't want "free"loaders using your software why is it "free" in the first place?
Re: HashiCorp adopts Business Source License
#10I’m a full time engineer, working on OSS for more than a decade. As much as I love open-souce, I get the point that there are a bunch of freeloaders using stuff and not contributing back.
Out of curiosity what is your definition of a freeloader? Is someone who’s been coding but hasn’t made a single OSS commit a freeloader ?
I would imagine that its someone who builds a profitable offering on the back of OSS and doesn't give back anything.