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Comment by lopkeny12ko | Hacker News Reader

Is it just me or does this article not answer the question in the title, "What HashiCorp’s license change means for Spacelift customers," at all?

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The answer is "our lawyers are looking into it".

> What we know for sure is that current versions of Terraform are, and will remain, unaffected, so there is no concern for your usage today.

I mean, of course. This is obvious. What everyone wants to know is that is means for the future of Spacelift usage, which is painfully unanswered.

The article ended so abruptly I wondered if there was an issue with my browser rendering the content.

Not sure, what they will do. But if I was them, I would fork the latest MPL version of the code and license all their contributions as GPL.

The only thing it can mean is Spacelift have to license Terraform from Hashicorp, and pass the cost onto the customer, making them less price competitive than before. That's literally it. I'm confused by the moral high horsing PR release. Time to pay up.

The big question is whether they fork Terraform or not.

Putting my cynical hat on, if I were running Hashicorp, I would be happy to give cheap licenses to anyone who wants one right now. The danger for Hashicorp is that people might fork Terraform and create a competitor. Right now, with the PR around the license change, is the most likely time for a fork to happen. It would be better to kill off competitors one by one, by raising prices slowly.

Spacelift must know this is a danger, though. So it might be better to fork even if there's a cheap license on offer.

Given Hashicorps frankly insane pricing strategies, I think they're feeling too mighty to be worried.

They've partnered with ALL of the largest industry giants in the cloud space. That must give them a pretty strong sense of security

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