Free, Libre, and Open Source Software: OpenTofu and “Delayed Open Source Publication” (DOSP), FOSS Weekly
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Silicon Angle ☛ Terraform fork OpenTofu launches into general availability
OpenTofu, a fork of the popular Terraform infrastructure automation platform, today moved into general availability. The milestone follows a four-month development effort that involved more than 60 engineers. According to the project’s organizers, OpenTofu is also backed by over 150 companies including several venture-backed enterprise software startups.
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Joe Brockmeier ☛ Joe Brockmeier: OpenTofu project serves up stable release
August of last year, Hashicorp decided to move its products away from open source licenses to a source-available license with fuzzy parameters on its use in production. Shortly afterwards, the community forked Terraform as OpenTF and then it was endorsed and picked up by the 'Linux' Foundation as OpenTofu. Now the project is ready to declare a stable release that it says is a production-ready “drop-in replacement for Terraform.”
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OSI Blog ☛ A historic view of the practice to delay releasing Open Source software: OSI’s report
New report explores from a historical perspective the “Delayed Open Source Publication” (DOSP), the practice to delay the release of code under Open Source licenses.
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It's FOSS ☛ FOSS Weekly #24.02: Mixing Hey Hi (AI) With Linux, Vanilla OS 2, and More
Unwind your new year celebration with new open-source projects, and keep an eye on interesting distro updates.