Open Source Summit Europe 2024 Virter is a useful little tool if you often create – and then delete – virtual machines to try things out. It's no doubt borne on the ripples from HashiCorp releasing BSL into the FOSS pond.
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This year's Open Source Summit Europe was in Vienna, which when The Reg FOSS desk arrived was hit by storms and floods, as was much of Central Europe last weekend. The buzzing server farms of cryptocurrency fans and LLM hucksters make matters worse in this department.
A very prominent presence at this year's event was the new Redis fork Valkey, which was the result of Redis changing its license terms back in March – as it happens, during KubeCon Europe, according to Valkey developer Madelyn Olson in the talk about the new project.
But Valkey is not the only such fork of a newly licensed product, and Redis is far from the only company making such radical changes. The year before, HashiCorp also switched licenses, leading among other things to the OpenTofu fork of HashiCorp's Terraform – whose adoption by the Linux Foundation was announced at last year's OSS EU. It was also followed by IBM acquiring HashiCorp.
