#licenses

Posts tagged #licenses

1. Article

   before you "do a HashiCorp": what a license change actually costs you

   since HashiCorp moved Terraform and its other tools to the Business Source License in 2023, and Redis changed its license in 2024, I get asked roughly monthly whether skerry will "go commercial". short answer: no. long answer, because the question deserves a real one and the topic is full of hot takes with no cost attached. what these companies actually did HashiCorp (2023) moved from the Mozilla Public License to…

   Karl LindqvistSep 14, 202643likes13comments

2. Experience

   someone forked skerry, renamed it, stripped my name, and sold support for it

   a story from a few years back that still annoys me in a specific, instructive way. skerry is permissively licensed on purpose, you can do almost anything with it, including fork it. I knew that when I chose the license. so this is not a legal complaint. it is a story about the difference between what you are allowed to do and what you should do. a consultancy took skerry, forked it, renamed it something close enough…

   Karl LindqvistAug 30, 202634likes5comments