Anyone else remember how #MariaDB company adopting the "Business Source License" for MaxScale made MaxScale and the company super-profitable? No one? Oh yeah, that's because it didn't. #Hashicorp#BUSL#opensource
For the record, the #MariaDB database itself is governed by the MariaDB Foundation, not the company. The Foundation rejected the BUSL and the database has stayed under the GPL this whole time. The database and Foundation are doing very well, while the company by the same name that pulled the BUSL shenanigans is not.
"The BSL license has no effect on the MariaDB Server, which will stay GPLv2 forever. The BSL is not used by the Foundation and everything the Foundation staff contributes to is fully open source."
My point is not to convince anyone to stop using #MariaDB - definitely do - it's absolutely awesome and #opensource. It happens to be awesome because it is owned by a Foundation that guarded it against the Company doing exactly what #Hashicorp just did. I also can't think of a reason why #Hashicorp won't enjoy similar outcomes to MariaDB Company. Hopefully, the common tools (Terraform, Vault) will get forked and maintained by a Foundation. The company is screwed. It's only a matter of time.
@vwbusguy I wonder (and I'm the naïve kind of guy) if this could be motivated by a sort of protection against cloud giants abuses.
A bit like Elasticsearch in its time, to prevent AWS from making money by reselling it without contributing back.
Yet I did not check the licenses details, except that hashicorp supposedly want to avoid 'tax-free competition' according to their communication.
@squalouJenkins Terraform and Vault at least greatly depend on those cloud vendors for those tools to be basically useful and exist. I don't see how this motivates Google, Amazin, Microsoft, VMWare, etc., to continue to support providers for Terraform and Vault under this new licensing. Arguably, Hashicorp had been making its money on the backs of the cloud providers just as much if not more than the open source developers.
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