earlier this month Hachi Corp. announced It was changing the open source license you use for Terraform and other developer tools. Change fuss in the open source community. A splinter group announced on Friday that it is developing an open source fork of Terraform, and it’s official Launch of the OpenTF project.
We have completed all the documents required for OpenTF to become part of the Linux Foundation with the ultimate goal of making OpenTF part of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. for sellers.”
Terraform is a popular Infrastructure-as-Code writing tool, which enables developers to encode connections to the infrastructure in a declarative way, greatly simplifying the work involved. write in Blog post dated August 10thArmon Dadgar, co-founder of HashiCorp, explained the reasons for the change:
Our approach has enabled us to partner closely with cloud service providers to enable tight integration for our shared users and customers, as well as the hundreds of other technology partners with whom we work closely. However, there are other vendors who take advantage of pure OSS models, and the community works on OSS projects to achieve their own commercial goals, without making material contributions. We don’t think this falls within the spirit of open source.
However, some members of the community felt betrayed and betrayed I posted a statement Shortly after HashiCorp’s announcement, HashiCorp demanded that it revert to its previous licensing arrangement, which was Mozilla Public License v2.0 (MPL 2.0), or the group would release its own open source version of Terraform.
HashiCorp, which believes it is only protecting its business through this change, has not responded to these demands, and on Friday, the group took the next step in the journey to become its own independent open source project, separate from HashiCorp.
The group claims that since the manifest was published, 400 companies, 10 projects and 400 individuals have signed up to help with the new venture. Longtime open source advocate and Kubernetes evangelist Kelsey Hightower wrote on X (the platform formerly known as Twitter) that the formation of this group demonstrated the community’s ability to react to such changes.
The group wrote that it is still in the process of developing its own variant, but that it is due to be completed soon. “We plan to roll out the fork in the next week or two. That doesn’t mean there will be a release by then, but the repository will be open. Releases (alpha and stable) should follow soon.