OpenTF Announces Fork of Terraform

Re:OpenTF Announces Fork of Terraform by richardfontana on Friday August 25, 2023 @02:26PM (#37265356)

Also FWIW Red Hat license policy (as implemented publicly through Fedora) disallows software under the Business Source License: https://gitlab.com/fedora/legal/fedora-license-data/-/blob/m... Red Hat has previously worked to eliminate product dependencies on 'source available' licenses and we're currently having to do this wrt Hashicorp stuff.

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Re:OpenTF Announces Fork of Terraform by candiddevmike on Friday August 25, 2023 @02:34PM (#37265487)

Not sure how much you details you can provide, but I know RH products use Terraform under the covers for a few things (like in OpenShift). Are you removing this functionality because it's no longer FOSS or fears around the BSL verbiage?

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Re:OpenTF Announces Fork of Terraform by bonzini on Friday August 25, 2023 @02:52PM (#37265703)

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For sure it will not update to BUSL-licensed versions of Terraform as mentioned above, but I can't say if it will stay on an older version, use OpenTF, use Ansible or something else.

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Re:OpenTF Announces Fork of Terraform by richardfontana on Friday August 25, 2023 @02:55PM (#37265735)

Since Red Hat is at the earliest stages of grappling with this issue and I can't speak for the teams involved I don't think there's anything I can say, other than that our corporate policies on product licensing by default do not allow stuff under licenses like BUSL-1.1. The only case I am aware of offhand where Red Hat briefly had a 'source available' license in a product concerned some code that was transferred from IBM to Red Hat (the source available component was third party with respect to both IBM and Red Hat; IBM does not or at least did not have the same restrictions on use of such licenses that Red Hat has).

Just speaking personally, I'm happy to see this fork occurring and hope they succeed in joining CNCF.

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