<story><title>OpenTerraform – an MPL fork of Terraform after HashiCorp&apos;s license change</title><url>https://github.com/diggerhq/open-terraform</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alephnerd</author><text>I know most HN commentators are thinking about Terraform, but I think this change was done with Consul and Vault in mind.&lt;p&gt;Plenty of companies (including my employer) have been building fully monetized software using Consul and Vault under the hood and not paying them a dime. We&amp;#x27;re a company that&amp;#x27;s valued&amp;#x2F;market capped in the Billions btw and I know plenty of other large software companies doing the same thing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Nilithus</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m also surprised no one is really mentioning Nomad in this discussion either, I know for a fact circleci used nomad at some point to schedule CI tasks on worker machines. If I create a SaaS product that runs programs which get scheduled with nomad under the hood is that a breach of the license?</text></comment>
<story><title>OpenTerraform – an MPL fork of Terraform after HashiCorp&apos;s license change</title><url>https://github.com/diggerhq/open-terraform</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>alephnerd</author><text>I know most HN commentators are thinking about Terraform, but I think this change was done with Consul and Vault in mind.&lt;p&gt;Plenty of companies (including my employer) have been building fully monetized software using Consul and Vault under the hood and not paying them a dime. We&amp;#x27;re a company that&amp;#x27;s valued&amp;#x2F;market capped in the Billions btw and I know plenty of other large software companies doing the same thing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rubiquity</author><text>Do you resell services that would be competing with Vault and Consul? If not I don’t see how this applies to your company’s product.&lt;p&gt;Side note: I’m not defending the license change and generally think most of HashiCorp’s products are not that great.</text></comment>