Re:OpenTF Announces Fork of Terraform
by foota on Friday August 25, 2023 @04:49PM
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Is that something you can do? I wouldn't have thought there previous license would be compatible with the BSL, and so distributing the software under the BSL wouldn't be possible?
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Re:OpenTF Announces Fork of Terraform
by jaggederest on Friday August 25, 2023 @04:57PM
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It's standard for BSD and MIT style licenses and similar to just require the copyright notice be retained in e.g. a LICENSE file or equivalent.
A bunch of commercial software right now (cough I'm writing this on MacOS) uses BSD-licensed foundations.
MPLv2 is file-based copyleft, and there are no restrictions on including it in a commercial work provided that changes to MPLv2-licensed files are accessible per the terms.
Indeed itβs something of a spiritual successor to CDDL which was designed precisely for that purpose (although reliable sources also say it was designed to be GPL-incompatible, so that is literally a he-said/she-said case).
Re:OpenTF Announces Fork of Terraform
by erincandescent on Sunday August 27, 2023 @02:31PM
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The CDDL is an MPLv1 derivative, so similarities should be unsurprising