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Infrastructure·Last verified 2026-11-06·Confidence: High

Changed from MPL-2.0 to BUSL-1.1 starting with 1.6.0 on 2023-08-10.

Versions before 1.6.0 remain under MPL-2.0.

Self-hosting
Allowed
Offering as a managed service (SaaS)
Restricted
Commercial impact: Restricted

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What changed

Terraform moved from MPL-2.0 to BUSL-1.1 starting with 1.6.0, announced on 2023-08-10. Releases up to 1.5.7 remain under MPL-2.0. The OpenTofu fork continues under MPL-2.0.

License timeline

2023-08-10

From 1.6.0

MPL-2.0Copyleft→BUSL-1.1Source-available
Restricted
Self-hosting: Allowed
Offering as a managed service (SaaS): Restricted

BUSL-1.1 restricts offering a product that competes with HashiCorp's commercial offerings. 1.5.7 is the last MPL-2.0 release and 1.6.0 is the first BUSL-1.1 release, per the repository license files.

Sources

Verified 2026-11-06·Confidence: High

Originally released under MPL-2.0

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Forks and alternatives

OpenTofu

Fork

MPL-2.0

Pulumi

Alternative

Apache-2.0

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More Infrastructure projects

Consul

MPL-2.0 → BUSL-1.1 · 1.17.0

Restricted

MinIO

Apache-2.0 → AGPL-3.0-only · RELEASE.2021-05-11T23-27-41Z

Restricted

Also switched to BUSL-1.1

CockroachDB

BUSL-1.1 → CockroachDB-Software-License · 24.3.0

Restricted

ArangoDB

Apache-2.0 → BUSL-1.1 · 3.12.0

Restricted

Sentry

BUSL-1.1 → FSL-Apache-2.0 · 23.11.1

Restricted

Consul

MPL-2.0 → BUSL-1.1 · 1.17.0

Restricted

Vault

MPL-2.0 → BUSL-1.1 · 1.15.0

Restricted

Directus

GPL-3.0-only → BUSL-1.1 · 10.10.0

Restricted

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