HashiCorp adopts the Business Source License to ensure continued investment in its community and to continue providing open, freely available products.
Its still open source. You can still view the source code. That’s what open source is.
“Open Source” does not, and has never only meant, “you can view the source code”. This is the Open Source Definition: https://opensource.org/osd/
Relevant excerpt:
No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor
The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.
The Open Source Definition is very specific, and this license does not meet it. This license is, as it calls itself, “source-available”.
“Open Source” does not, and has never only meant, “you can view the source code”. This is the Open Source Definition: https://opensource.org/osd/
Relevant excerpt:
The Open Source Definition is very specific, and this license does not meet it. This license is, as it calls itself, “source-available”.
If the OSI had obtained that trademark in 1999 on “Open Source”, it would be abundantly clear what software really is and is not open source https://opensource.org/pressreleases/certified-open-source.php/