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HashiCorp recently changed Terraform from an open source model to something that requires licensing, so folks got together, forked the code, and created OpenTF.

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[-] motorheadkusanagi@lemmy.world 58 points 1 year ago

That misses the point, imo. Much of Hashi's ecosystem was created by people who contributed to the product believing it was community owned, as that's what the license said.

Oracle tried to do similar when they closed the source for Hudson. Hudson was forked, creating Jenkins, and I would be surprised if folks even remember Hudson today.

Oxide Computing gets into the details on their podcast: https://youtu.be/QaU94LY891M

[-] qupada@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

The OpenTF site itself provides a view on that point: https://opentf.org/#regular-user

And they're right; while you might consider yourself compliant with today's version of the license, they can change those terms whenever, and however they like in the future.

I weirdly do remember Hudson from my previous roles as a software developer, but like so many products forked that way it's barely a footnote in history at this point.

[-] ripcord@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

So if there are many contributors to the code they are continuing to use, did they get agreement from all that they could close source? Or does the license not require that?

[-] ripcord@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

Well. I feel ignorant. Use Jenkins all the time, never heard of Hudson. Looks like I need to do some readin'.

But yeah, I'm guessing you're right :)

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[-] chris@l.roofo.cc 4 points 1 year ago

I was wondering why their classes have Hudson in the package name. I just never bothered to look it up.

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