Terraform By Hashicorp Forked To OpenTF

“Terraform, arguably the most popular Infrastructure as Code products, has been forked after the parent company HashiCorp changed its license from the Mozilla Public License (MPL) to the Business Source License v1.1 (BSL),” writes long-time Slashdot reader ochinko. “Our view is that we’re actually not the fork because we’re just changing the name but it’s the same project under the same license,” Sebastian Stadil, co-founder and CEO of DevOps automation biz Scalr told The Register. “Our position is that the fork is actually HashiCorp that has forked its own projects under a different license.” From the report: HashiCorp’s decision to issue new licensing terms for its software follows a path trodden by numerous other organizations formed around open source projects to limit what competitors can do with project code. As the biz acknowledged in its…