The Open Source Licensing Battle
In 2023, the open-source landscape witnessed significant shifts in licensing models, exemplified by Red Hat’s controversial changes to its CentOS distribution and HashiCorp’s adoption of a new business source license (BSL) for its software, notably Terraform. Red Hat’s move to restrict access to source code and HashiCorp’s BSL, preventing the use of their software in competing projects, sparked backlash from the open-source community. The response included the forking of Terraform into Open Tofu under the Linux Foundation, highlighting a growing commitment to preserving open-source principles and preventing impediments to collaborative development.
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