Era of open-source software might be ending

HashiCorp announced Thursday that it is switching the license that governs the use of eight open-source projects under the company's wing from the Mozilla Public License to the Business Source License (BSL), a so-called "source available" license that does not meet the traditional definition of open source as described by the Open Source Initiative. Under the BSL, users of HashiCorp projects like Terraform and Vault will be able to use and modify the source code associated with those projects but will not be allowed to use the code as part of a commercial service that competes with HashiCorp's commercial versions of those projects.