Enterprise Weekly #436: HashiCorp's Open-Source Transition, GTM Compensation, and More
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This week, HashiCorp announced that it transitioned from its historical open-source roots to a Business Source License (BSL). This gives the company more control over its OSS projects by insulating the company from competitors seeking to redistribute HasiCorp’s OSS code for commercial use. HashiCorp isn’t the first OSS company to make this move — Confluent, Couchbase, Cockroach Labs, Elastic, MariaDB, MongoDB, and Sentry have all adopted alternative licenses that include restrictions on commercial usage.
Enterprise Weekly #436: HashiCorp's Open-Source Transition, GTM Compensation, and More
Enterprise Weekly #436: HashiCorp's…
Enterprise Weekly #436: HashiCorp's Open-Source Transition, GTM Compensation, and More
This week, HashiCorp announced that it transitioned from its historical open-source roots to a Business Source License (BSL). This gives the company more control over its OSS projects by insulating the company from competitors seeking to redistribute HasiCorp’s OSS code for commercial use. HashiCorp isn’t the first OSS company to make this move — Confluent, Couchbase, Cockroach Labs, Elastic, MariaDB, MongoDB, and Sentry have all adopted alternative licenses that include restrictions on commercial usage.