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OpenTF, an open source Terraform, is officially announced today (opentf.org)
submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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HashiCorp recently changed Terraform from an open source model to something that requires licensing, so folks got together, forked the code, and created OpenTF.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago (7 children)

I'm glad they are doing this but in all likelihood most people who use terraform are not offering terraform to third parties on a hosted or embedded basis which is competitive with HashiCorp's products and can continue to make production use of it.

But like I said, I am glad it's happening - as an insurance policy.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 2 years ago (5 children)

That misses the point, imo. Much of Hashi's ecosystem was created by people who contributed to the product believing it was community owned, as that's what the license said.

Oracle tried to do similar when they closed the source for Hudson. Hudson was forked, creating Jenkins, and I would be surprised if folks even remember Hudson today.

Oxide Computing gets into the details on their podcast: https://youtu.be/QaU94LY891M

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The OpenTF site itself provides a view on that point: https://opentf.org/#regular-user

And they're right; while you might consider yourself compliant with today's version of the license, they can change those terms whenever, and however they like in the future.

I weirdly do remember Hudson from my previous roles as a software developer, but like so many products forked that way it's barely a footnote in history at this point.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

So if there are many contributors to the code they are continuing to use, did they get agreement from all that they could close source? Or does the license not require that?

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