HashiCorp's new license is still open source-ish, just with less free lunch
. HashiCorp is at pains to point out that it's not alone in this:
With this change we are following a path similar to other companies in recent years. These companies include Couchbase, Cockroach Labs, Sentry, and MariaDB, which developed this license in 2013. Companies including Confluent, MongoDB, Elastic, Redis Labs, and others have also adopted alternative licenses that include restrictions on commercial usage.
The gist of the BSL is that the software's source code remains freely available, and can be used, modified, distributed, and deployed – but only for non-production purposes. If you want to use it for profit-making work, you have to pay. However, after a cut-off period called the Change Date, the source code to that specific version automatically reverts to a full FOSS license of the company's choice.
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