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Re:OpenTerraform – an MPL fork of Terraform after HashiCorp'... by izalutski on Friday August 11, 2023 @11:01AM (#37089470)
Yes indeed a puzzling move from Hashicorp's leadership perspective. Could be a miscalculation; or no calculation at all.

It looks like it boils down to being no longer able to "incorporate the source code or embed or distribute newer versions of Terraform." (From Spacelift's blog). For a piece of software that doesn't even have a server, this seems extremely restrictive. I wouldn't be surprised if Hashicorp takes a few steps back on this / provides clarifications for specific use cases

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Re:OpenTerraform – an MPL fork of Terraform after HashiCorp'... by ianbutler on Friday August 11, 2023 @11:11AM (#37089585)
Yeah that embed portion, I use terraform in a tool I maintain to make it easier to manage kubernetes deployments and with that embed clause that makes terraform DoA for me. It's been nice to work with but not essential, so now even though it's annoying I'll remove it next time I do a big push on the codebase.
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