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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Aw man… and I was just thinking about deploying Nomad in my homelab…

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I started using terraform a few weeks ago...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Switch over to pulumi, it's essentially the same thing

https://www.pulumi.com/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The reason I went with terraform is really because of the demand on the job market. Oh well, if I have never done that in the past and am still doing fine 🤷

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Did you read the post from them? You are not affected.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not affected today, many businesses were started from home. We already know it's not possible any more to build a business using hashicorp products as they could pivot at any moment and then you'd be "competing" and in breach of license.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes but is that affecting you businesswise, for example using terraform for proviosioning infrastructure for a customer? As far as I understand this move it affects companies like gruntwork who makes a business on top of terraform with terragrunt. Dont get me wrong, I do dislike this change also but saying „it is not open source anymore“ is just wrong. It is still open source but its usage changed for companies making a dollar here or there with technologies they dont develop.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It is still open source but its usage changed for companies making a dollar here or there with technologies they dont develop

That's not open source.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Do you have access to the source code?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It is. You mix free software and open source, their often but not always the same.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You have no idea what you're talking about.

https://opensource.org/osd/

  1. No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups

The license must not discriminate against any person or group of persons.

https://opensource.org/licenses/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I see no discrimination here lol. Look up licenses and stop dreaming.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Stop shilling proprietary licenses in this community.

  1. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor

The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.

Also go look up the word discrimination.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That is a rather short sighted interpretation of what is happening I feel. Essentially the company is moving from FLOSS to "free as in beer", which will very likely affect the product in the long run.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Sure, but it’s a question of principle. I try to use and support FLOSS software if possible.