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Status: Investigating

Sponsor User: IBM

Date of Submission:  

Submitted by: Joe Pearson 

Affiliation(s): IBM

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Overview

On August 10, 2023, Hashicorp announced their products (Terraform, Vault, Consul, Packer, Vagrant) were transitioning from an open-source MPL license to a BSL 1.1 source-available license.  The BSL 1.1 license prevents Hashicorp products from being used as dependencies in Linux Foundation projects.  The former MPL-licensed version can continue to be used, but will no longer receive updates, fixes, and security patches after December 31, 2023.  Offering secure deployment of secrets in Open Horizon is a strategic differentiating feature, and thus this feature should not be removed from the project codebase.  An existing open-source equivalent (EnvKey) is being evaluated, but would require the following changes to be completed by mid-Q1, 2024 to be viable:

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