HashiCorp adopts the Business Source License to ensure continued investment in its community and to continue providing open, freely available products.
No more open source.
Vendors who provide competitive services built on our community products will no longer be able to incorporate future releases, bug fixes, or security patches contributed to our products.
IANAL but don’t think they can opted out of it , it’s part of the license
Effective on the Change Date, or the fourth anniversary of the first publicly available distribution of a specific version of the Licensed Work under this License, whichever comes first, the Licensor hereby grants you rights under the terms of the Change License, and the rights granted in the paragraph above terminate.
IANAL but don’t think they can opted out of it , it’s part of the license
Neat.