[vertis]

In the very early days of Terraform, when it was 2 months or so old I helped a little. How many people did (so much more than me) with all these projects to be later betrayed by relicensing.

    > git log --pretty=format:"%h %an %ad %s" --date=short | grep "Luke Chadwick"
    dcd6449245 Luke Chadwick 2014-07-30 Add documentation for elb health_check
    0eed0908df Luke Chadwick 2014-07-30 Add health_check to aws_elb resource
    96c05c881a Luke Chadwick 2014-07-30 Update documentation to include the new   user_data attribute on aws_launch_configuration
    15bdf8b5f9 Luke Chadwick 2014-07-30 Add user_data to aws_launch_configuration
    8d2e232602 Luke Chadwick 2014-07-29 Update documentation to reflect the addition of associate_public_ip_address to the aws_instance resource
    974074fee9 Luke Chadwick 2014-07-29 Add associate_public_ip_address as an attribute of the aws_instance resource

[eadmund]

> How many people did (so much more than me) with all these projects to be later betrayed by relicensing.

Were you betrayed? They did a thing you licensed them to do. That’s the whole point of non-copyleft free software licenses, after all! It’s kind of odd to specifically choose a license which allows others to use one’s code in proprietary software, then be upset when others use one’s code in proprietary software.

If one wishes one’s software and its users to remain free, the answer is to use a copyleft license.

[vertis]

They can and did use it in commercial software before relicensing. I don't have a problem with that. It's a betrayal to get a huge community together under one expectation and then decide you don't like that expectation any more. Had they used, even something like AGPL from the start it would not have been successful in the same way, would not have gotten the same levels of outside contributions, so yes it's a betrayal.

It's a limited betrayal, because that license also allows for OpenTofu to exist and fork, but the need to do that is just annoying.

[jen20]

Just to be clear: MPLv2 is a copyleft license.

[eadmund]

Doh! You’re right.