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Re:OpenTF Announces Fork of Terraform by jaggederest on Friday August 25, 2023 @04:57PM (#37266948)
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.

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Re:OpenTF Announces Fork of Terraform by jen20 on Friday August 25, 2023 @05:06PM (#37267057)
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 it’s 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).

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Re:OpenTF Announces Fork of Terraform by erincandescent on Sunday August 27, 2023 @02:31PM (#37285358)
The CDDL is an MPLv1 derivative, so similarities should be unsurprising
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