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This is the 2nd of such moves this year to my knowledge; first there was #Lightbend and #Akka and now this. What a year for #FOSS ๐
I know for a fact that so many organisations use #hashicorp products for commercial purposes w/o ever contributing back. And I understand how this may feel for hashicorp in these harsh economic times. Though this still is, IMHO, a cheap move: they used an OSS license for a very long time which resulted in a massive user base and a "soft" vendor lock-in, and now they decided to milk that user base.
Looking forwards to solid community-driven forks of their products ๐ช
From my reading this wouldn't impact organisations just using the product at all. Only probiders that offer services should be impacted. Similar to what Elastic did with their license.
Note I didn't actually read the license text, just browsed the FAQ a bit