🧢 OpenTofu: Terraform Accusations Are Invalid. We Use Properly Licenced Code

HashiCorp isn’t happy with OpenTofu, and accuses it of using code under new licence. OpenTofu responds it didn’t use new Terraform code at all

In a quite interesting turn of events OpenTofu team had to respond to a cease and desist letter from Terraform. The response long story short says that Terraform claims are invalid.

If you want to know what the whole drama is about, you’re in a good place.

Let’s uncover the truth behind the row that heated programming, open source and Go language communities. Yeah, Terraform and OpenTofu are written in Go language.

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Terraform Became A Standard For DevOps 🎉

Everything started in year 2014, nine years ago. HashiCorp started to work on a platform to generate infrastructure with a code and called it Terraform. For 9 years it grew to become very popular among DevOps.

What’s interesting, the source code was open source. Specifically the licence used was Mozilla Public Licence (MPL).