> It’s also worth remembering that Terraform itself is built on top of multiple open source libraries and an open source ecosystem. Without the volunteer work of hundreds of unpaid individuals, HashiCorp products would not be successful, there would be no ecosystem, and the company would not exist.
Hear, hear! (edited, thx)
EDIT: Also, if you are contributing to open source, read carefully before submitting that PR. Do not contribute to projects that make you agree to a CLA. It's becoming more and more common for projects to include one or two lines in the README and that's it. All your code are belong to us. I don't know if that would hold up, but why contribute your time and effort?
And, if those projects had been licensed using AGPL, then Hashicorp would not be able to relicense this without negotiating a non-GPL license for themselves, first.
I don't understand why GPL gets so much hate on HN.
Because most startups can’t use AGPL. I had to provide audits of our licenses of libraries we use in our code base to investors and attest we didn’t have AGPL code in our code/software in our stack. This was at an e-commerce company and not a company that directly monetized software. Companies are free to choose whatever license but it will limit who can use their software.
> I had to provide audits of our licenses of libraries we use in our code base to investors and attest we didn’t have AGPL code in our code/software in our stack.
A little off topic, but how are these audits usually done? I'd like to familiarize myself
Not necessarily your specific case, if there's a resource online that'd be fine