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I tend to prefer the GPL because I don't know what good "source available" does for anyone beyond an audit. If I want to have someone fix a bug - I probably can't with "source available", and the overhead in figuring out if something is a use not liked by the vendor is an unnecessary headache for me.
So... in this case, for me I'd treat a no-commercial use, source available, as functionally the same as a proprietary license like Microsofts.
I take it you're responding from the lens of using this software in a corporate setting? Otherwise there is functionally no difference in the license vs OSI-compatible open-source licenses unless I'm missing something big which very well could be the case
Well, yes. I doubt there's massive demand for HashiCorps tools for random home users.