[skywhopper]

The article is somewhat confusing but it sounds like Oracle packages a cloud infrastructure management tool that’s based on Terraform. Presumably it’s built on 1.6, which was still MPL. Since they offer this product as a service, it directly falls under the restrictions HashiCorp put into place to prevent competition from repackagers and SaaS offerings of their products.

So to move forward with upgrading the Terraform support in their tool, Oracle had two choices: pay HashiCorp (soon IBM) a hefty license fee to resell Terraform, or use OpenTofu which is free and has now proven to be well-run enough to issue a new release with both Terraform compatibility and OpenTofu-specific enhancements, while dodging lazy accusations of code theft from HashiCorp.

This is a no-brainer for Oracle, and it’s great news for the future of OpenTofu.

[empressplay]

It will be interesting to see what IBM's army of lawyers think about those lazy accusations of code theft ;)