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   Alfred M. Szmidt (amszmidt@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 17-Sep-2023 19:21:25 JST Alfred M. Szmidt

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   • Strypey
   • Free Software Foundation
   • Eric the Cerise

   @strypey @ErictheCerise I think it is more a reminder to read the CLA or similar carefully and having some trust in the organization. E.g., the
   #GNU project uses the @fsf assignment, where this type of shenanigans is simple impossible.

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     Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Sunday, 17-Sep-2023 19:21:26 JST Strypey

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     • Eric the Cerise

     @ErictheCerise
     > "HashiCorp that has forked its own projects under a different license"

     This is another reminder never to assign your copyright to a private company. License them to use it under a copyleft license, but keep the copyright. If they want to avoid publishing code for their modifications, make them pay you for a copyleft exemption (if you're willing to grant one, you don't have to).

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     #copyleft #CopyleftExemption #copyright #CopyrightAssignment

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     Eric the Cerise (ericthecerise@kolektiva.social)'s status on Sunday, 17-Sep-2023 19:21:28 JST Eric the Cerise

     Yet another corporate-led #FOSS project getting screwed by the company that is supposed to be taking care of it.

     If you or your business uses it, and if you care about such things (and I hope you do) ... time to quit using #Terraform and switch over to #OpenTF ( https://openTF.org/ ).

     The parent corp changed the project license from a FOSS license to a more profit-friendly business license. Of course, it was promptly forked by FOSS folk to maintain a free and open version.

     https://m.slashdot.org/story/418538

     "Our view is that we're actually not the fork ... the fork is actually HashiCorp that has forked its own projects under a different license."