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[โ€“] kresten@feddit.dk 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What does this mean?๐Ÿค”

[โ€“] bahmanm@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Given I was recently involved in minimising the impact of Lightbend's similar move earlier this year, AFAIU it means their products will be conditionally open source. They'll be free to use for non-commercial use but you'd need to pay for anything else.

[โ€“] loren@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

There's no need to AFAIU when their FAQ explains all the detail, which is that commercial production use is fine as long as you're not using it to build a competitor product to Hashicorp.

[โ€“] grue@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

There is no such thing as "conditionally open source." The license terms you describe are just "not open source."

If they actually gave a shit about commercial entities contributing back, they should've gone AGPL3. This is just a money grab and yet another example of how permissive licensing isn't good enough and everything should be copyleft.

[โ€“] falsem@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're conflating FOSS and open source. This is open source just not FOSS anymore

[โ€“] BautAufWasEuchAufbaut@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is plainly incorrect, please see the other responses.
FOSS stands for "free and open source software", but they functionally mean the same thing. So what you're saying is:

This is open source just not open source anymore

[โ€“] falsem@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're cherry picking a definition to support your agenda.

So your claim is that the open source definition by the Open Source Initiative which is battle tested and widely used by distributions, major git hosts and legal enitities is a cherry-picked definition?
Sounds like you're cherry-picking your definition to hide that you simply have no idea :)