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The issue with that is the ownership of the name. Name is identity, and thus the canonical representation of "Terraform" is now BSL. However, if you don't hav
by dijit 3y ago
The issue with that is the ownership of the name.
Name is identity, and thus the canonical representation of "Terraform" is now BSL.
However, if you don't have an identifier such as the trademarked name and you look at the project itself then I think you're right.
- PeterZaitsev 3y agoDo not mix source code license with Trademark. Trademark use is focused by Trademark policy which is here for Hashicorp https://www.hashicorp.com/trademark-policy https://www.hashicorp.com/trademark-policy
- hadlock 3y agoIt can be rebranded, that's pretty straightforward for something that's such an industry standard. "Oh yeah? Earthworks? That's the open source fork of Terraform" pretty simple. If it were a lesser known technology it would be an issue but most of the (modern) internet runs on it, whatever they name the fork will be well known pretty much instantly
- Brian_K_White 3y agoNo one asked "How does one rebrand?" The whole point of this thread is the premise that it's not a fork. Hashicorp's copy is the fork, and it's backwards that the fork gets to keep the name and the original must rename itself.