Terraform’s License Change and Its Implications

On 10 August 2023, HashiCorp changed Terraform from MPL 2.0 to Business Source License v1.1, which prohibits building competing products. For 95% of teams using Terraform internally, the practical impact is nil. Teams building SaaS products on top of Terraform need to review their situation or consider OpenTofu.

October 11, 2023 4 min 221 4.5

Artificial Intelligence

LLaMA 2 and the New Wave of Open Language Models

Meta released LLaMA 2 on July 18, 2023 with a royalty-free commercial licence, in three sizes (7B, 13B, 70B parameters). The 70B model matches or beats GPT-3.5 on standard benchmarks. For 99.9% of organisations the licence allows download, modification, and production use with full data privacy and no fine-tuning restrictions.

August 3, 2023 4 min 243 4.6