> They could be focusing on the licence and their perception of Hashicorp
They literally do:
"HashiCorp even had all contributors sign a CLA which explicitly said (link to the CLA in the Internet Archive as HashiCorp has of course removed this wording): [...]
The move to BUSL—which is not a free and open source license—broke the implicit contract. That was the brash action!
Terraform would've never gotten the adoption it did, or all the contributions from the community had it not been open source. Most of us would've never agreed to the CLA to contribute to the project if it was BUSL licensed. Taking all those contributions and all that community trust, and then changing to the BUSL license is a bait and switch." [1]
I agree with the overall sentiment, but they could've left out all the judging side comments.
They literally do:
"HashiCorp even had all contributors sign a CLA which explicitly said (link to the CLA in the Internet Archive as HashiCorp has of course removed this wording): [...]
The move to BUSL—which is not a free and open source license—broke the implicit contract. That was the brash action!
Terraform would've never gotten the adoption it did, or all the contributions from the community had it not been open source. Most of us would've never agreed to the CLA to contribute to the project if it was BUSL licensed. Taking all those contributions and all that community trust, and then changing to the BUSL license is a bait and switch." [1]
I agree with the overall sentiment, but they could've left out all the judging side comments.
[1] Source: https://opentf.org/#why-fork