Discussion on Usage of BSL Code and Concerns about Violating the BSL

On August 10th, HashiCorp made the controversial decision to re-license some of the popular, formerly-open source project under the Business Source License (BUSL). Bryan and Adam spoke with founders of the OpenTF project, an effort to keep Terraform operating in the open.

In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, speakers on August 21st included Josh Padnick, Malcolm Matalka, and Cory O'Daniel.

Our condolences to the friends, family, and loved ones of Kris Nóva

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Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:

• OpenTF
• HashiCorp BUSL announcement
• HashiCorp BUSL FAQ
• Squeezefish "Interview" (image)
• Cory's blog post
• CNCF issue for tracking Hashicorp license change

If we got something wrong or missed something, please file a PR! Our next show will likely be on Monday at 5p Pacific Time on our Discord server; stay tuned to our Mastodon feeds for details, or subscribe to this calendar. We'd love to have you join us, as we always love to hear from new speakers!