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It means that whether you can use Terraform at any future company you work for will be determined... by HashiCorp.

That's because the BSL license is intentionally vague. What does "competing" mean? What does "hosting or embedding" mean? Who decides?

In order to really know if you're a competitor, you have to reach out to HashiCorp (as the FAQ tells you to do). So whether your usage is valid is not controlled by the license terms, but is instead entirely at the whim of HashiCorp. So they switched from a permissive open source license to a HashiCorp decides license: they get to decide on a case by case basis now—and they can change their mind at any time.

That is very shaky footing on which to build anything.

And the legal team at every company you work for will have to take that into account before deciding you can or can't use Terraform.

See https://blog.gruntwork.io/the-future-of-terraform-must-be-op... for more info.