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by hughw 980 days ago
I hope somebody can elaborate on the licensing problem? I see a community edition...
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They changed to the BDL from the MPL https://www.hashicorp.com/license-faq which in FOSS culture is considered a dick move.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37081306

They pulled the rug out on a lot of people and people tend to hold grudges. Community edition is peanuts compared to using an open source tool you _could have_ fixed your own bugs with by creating PRs or adding features with PRs. I used to be a huge hashicorp fanboy... _used to_.

Just to clarify, you can still access the code, submit PRs to add features, etc. The only difference is that during a fixed time period (4 years) you cannot use Nomad to compete with HashiCorp. If you want to do that, you can ask for a license.