Splinter group officially launches OpenTF fork of HashiCorp Terraform TechCrunch

Splinter group officially launches OpenTF fork of HashiCorp Terraform | TechCrunch

News Summary

Earlier this month HashiCorp announced it was changing the open source license it uses for Terraform and its other developer tools The change triggered an uproar in the open Source community
On Friday a splinter group announced it is developing an open source fork of Terraform
The group claims that since it published the manifesto companies projects and individuals have signed up to help with the new project
Kelsey Hightower long time open source advocate and Kubernetes evangelist wrote on X the platform previously known as Twitter that the formation of this group demonstrated the ability of the community to react to changes

Earlier this month HashiCorp announced that it was changing the open source license it uses for Terraform and its other developer tools. The change triggered an uproar in the open source community. O [+2810 chars]

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