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coryodaniel authored Aug 17, 2023
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(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230610041432/https://www.hashicorp.com/cla">link to the CLA in the
Internet Archive</a> as HashiCorp has of course removed this wording):
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HashiCorp is committed to having a true Free and Open Source Software (“FOSS”) license for our non-commercial
software. A CLA enables HashiCorp to safely commercialize our products while keeping a standard FOSS license
with all the rights that license grants to users: the ability to use the project in their own projects or
businesses, to republish modified source, or to completely fork the project.
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The move to BSL—which is <em>not</em> a free and open source license—broke the implicit contract. <em>That</em>
was the brash action!
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In the <a href="https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/hashicorp-adopts-business-source-license">blog post</a> where
HashiCorp announces the switch to BSL, they justify the license switch as a response to the following:
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However, 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.
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This is inaccurate and misleading. First of all, many of the vendors affected by the change to BSL have made
considerable contributions to the Terraform community. Here are just a handful of examples:
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<h2>Supporters</h2>

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We acknowledge that maintaining an open source project such as Terraform takes a considerable investment
in terms of time, skill, effort, and coordination. We are grateful to HashiCorp for creating Terraform
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