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The Linux Foundation's 'OpenTofu' Project Denies HashiCorp's Allegations of Code Theft (news.slashdot.org)

submitted 9 months ago by 0nekoneko7@lemmy.world to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 37 points 9 months ago (2 children)

And this is exactly why OpenTofu was created, to avoid a non competitive relicensing... which, what do you know, actually happened.

But to take on Linux Foundation seems silly, not sure what their angle is here. It's not like HashiCorp can bully them.

I mean it's still possible that someone made a blunder and copied code from after the relicense but it sounds highly unlikely given that the whole point of the fork was in preparation to avoiding the relicense... I have to assume they took extra care not to include anything that wasn't covered by MPL.

[–] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 18 points 9 months ago

According to the article, they basically copied and pasted code from the earlier version to a new place for some new purpose, which is the same thing Hashicorp did for the same purpose in their new version.

No idea what the actual details are, but that seems pretty likely to be permissible under the first license to me.

[–] hedgehog@ttrpg.network 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

In the comments someone shared the code in question. It’s a new feature that both TF and OT implemented. The implementations are different, though, and OT’s appears to be much more similar to existing MPL licensed code than to the new TF code.

Commits in question: Terraform vs Opentofu