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by dserodio 785 days ago
After Hashicorp's recent license change shenanigans I doubt any new OSS project will adopt HCL
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Why? HCL itself is under the MPLv2, and the underpinning go-cty is under MIT. Both of these are perfectly reasonable licenses for even _commercial_ software to use, let alone open source.
Lack of trust in the project's future with the impending sale to IBM.
Why wouldn’t you just use it and fork it if there’s an issue? It’s largely just “finished” at this point. Not everything needs to be churned for years.
especially with OpenTOFU being a thing too
OpenTofu literally _uses_ HCL, with a couple of minor adjustments...