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by ig1 767 days ago
Following IBM's acquisition of Hashicorp the moves seems unsurprising, they wouldn't want to be beholden to a competitor.

We'll inevitably see others large companies follow suite - it was one thing when hashicorp was independent tech company but it's very different when it's owned by a direct competitor.
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tw04 767 days ago
>they wouldn't want to be beholden to a competitor.

Which is ironic given that OEL is a direct rip-off of RHEL which IBM also now owns.

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cies 767 days ago
IBM prolly got them to agree to do the re-licensing move "as Hashicorp" as part of the take over deal. So it would not look bad on IBM.
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alemanek 767 days ago
From what I have read Hashicorp did this relicensing since IBM was reselling Vault at scale in IBM cloud. They wanted to force IBM and other cloud providers to pay them instead I believe.

IBM employees then initiated the fork of vault which is called openbao. Later IBM buys Hashicorp. The fork might have just been an attempt at leverage in the negotiations but it remains to be seen if it will live on.

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candiddevmike 767 days ago
OpenTofu hard forked, it's going to be interesting to see what happens if IBM rolls back the licensing changes.
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