Licensing Change from Version 1.5.5 (Aug 2023)
Terraform was an open source tool until August 10, 2023, and it changed to the community edition when HashiCorp changed the licensing of their products from Mozilla Public License v2.0 (MPL 2.0) to Business Source License (BSL or BUSL) v1.1.
Though the BSL license is open, free, and makes the source code available, it does not meet the “open source” criteria defined by The Open Source Initiative (OSI), because of which the Terraform tool cannot be called “open source” anymore. This license is applicable from Terraform version 1.5.5.
As per the new license, “Organizations providing competitive offerings to HashiCorp will no longer be permitted to use the community edition products free of charge under our BSL license.”
For more details on new licensing and how it impacts your environment, visit the following links:
