alt Hacker NewsMost people have no problem with non-open source software. The gnashing of teeth comes in when projects like Terraform become successful specifically because they're open source, and then the maintainer changes to a closed source license that would have prevented the project from being successful in the first place.
Doubly so when they relicense outside contributors' work with a closed source license because those contributors signed a CLA.
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The trick is not to get attached to a project name. `Terraform` is a trademark of IBM (previously Hashicorp). Terraform used to refer to an open-source IaC project, but now it doesn't. OpenTofu, https://opentofu.org, is probably the most accurate name for the continuation of that open-source project.
Sounds like we need a "forever open source" license.
A commitment that any significant derivative retain the original (or some later version) of the original license.
"Free to do whatever as long as it retains this license. A commitment that this license will not change, even by the original author".
No special cases, just a blanket license for all derivatives.
If it exists, what are the barriers to adoption? Why don't we all use it?
Quite a few people commenting here are having problems with it in the case of Bearblog though, including some pretty wild accusations.
And lets be real here: https://github.com/HermanMartinus/bearblog/graphs/contributo...
Looking at the details of that, the only two (small) substantial code changes from other people are "User can delete their own account" from 2020, and "Use cloudflare online dns api to perform domain check" from 2021.