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Consul license, foundation and stars

Infrastructure and storage · Business Source License 1.1 (source-available) · backed by HashiCorp · 30,110 stars

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Consul is a distributed, highly available, and data center aware solution to connect and configure applications across dynamic, distributed infrastructure.

License history

LICENSE file
Source-availableAug 11, 2023

MPL 2.0 to Business Source License 1.1

HashiCorp moved Consul from MPL 2.0 to the Business Source License with its company-wide change.

Latest release

No GitHub releases published; the project releases elsewhere (tags or its own site).

About and history
Repository
hashicorp/consul · created Nov 4, 2013
Website
consul.io
Language
Go
Foundation
None; run by HashiCorp
Company
HashiCorp · on Companies · on Acquisitions · on awards · on blogs · on certifications · on Attested · on Downtime · on Leaders · on Paydays · on Releases · on TechConf
GitHub detects
NOASSERTION (a custom or multi-license file; the license above is read from the file itself)
Stars per week
4 (GitHub weekly snapshots)

Weekly snapshots

Week ofStars
Nov 9, 202630,110
Oct 26, 202630,096
Oct 19, 202630,088
Oct 5, 202630,092
Sep 28, 202630,088
Sep 21, 202630,081

Changes

Stars per weekNov 9, 2026

Gains about 4 stars a week, up from 3.

Stars per weekOct 30, 2026

Gains about 3 stars a week, up from 2.

Stars per weekOct 20, 2026

Gains about 2 stars a week, down from 6.

Stars per weekOct 11, 2026

Gains about 6 stars a week, down from 7.

Stars per weekSep 28, 2026

Gains about 7 stars a week.

RelicensedSep 25, 2026

Relicensed from MPL 2.0 to Business Source License 1.1.

TrackedSep 25, 2026

Now tracked, from hashicorp/consul on GitHub.