HashiCorp drops open source for 'source available'

Company joins MongoDB, Elastic, Confluent and others saying 'you can't compete directly with us'

John Leonard
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HashiCorp drops open source for 'source available'

HashiCorp, the maker of widely used software development and deployment tools including Vagrant and Terraform, has announced that it is moving away from the open source model with which it made its name.

In a blog post, Arman Dadgar, who cofounded the San Francisco-based company in 2021 with Mitchell Hashimoto, said the company is moving to "the Business Source Licence to ensure continued investmen...

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