License Changes 2023 Incident #75

HashiCorp BSL change

Estimated Financial Impact
140+ companies affected
Blast Radius
OpenTofu fork; IBM acquired for $6.4B

What Happened

HashiCorp's switch from MPL 2.0 to BSL 1.1 prompted 140+ companies and 700+ individuals to sign the OpenTF manifesto. The community forked Terraform as OpenTofu under the Linux Foundation (33,000+ GitHub stars). HashiCorp was subsequently acquired by IBM for $6.4 billion.

Sources: Spacelift analysis

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Risk Guard: Caught

PACKAGE_LICENSE_MISMATCH detects license change between versions.

Risk Guard Check Codes That Flag This Incident

LICENSE_RESTRICTION_COMMERCIALLICENSE_NOT_APPROVED

How Every Tool Performed

1 Caught 0 Partial 5 Missed
Tool Verdict Details
OSS Risk Guard Caught PACKAGE_LICENSE_MISMATCH detects license change between versions.
Socket Missed No license change monitoring
Snyk Missed Scans current license only; no change detection
Sonatype (Nexus) Missed Scans current license only; no change detection
Black Duck Missed Scans current license only; no change detection
Endor Labs Missed Scans current license only; no change detection
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