--- title: Community plans to fork Puppet, unhappy with Perforce... description: The Puppet community is planning to fork the DevOps automation tool following changes by Perforce, which acquired Puppet in 2022. Perforce's new policy will... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/community-plans-to-fork-puppet-unhappy-with-perforce-changes-to-open-source-project-devclass-9grn1bxhe twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Community plans to fork Puppet, unhappy with Perforce changes to open-source project • DEVCLASS | daily.dev og:description: The Puppet community is planning to fork the DevOps automation tool following changes by Perforce, which acquired Puppet in 2022. 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Perforce's new policy will restrict access to new binaries and packages to paying customers and impose an end-user license agreement for development use. Community members feel these changes will hinder collaboration and push users towards commercial licenses. They have initiated the OpenPuppetProject to continue developing the tool under an open-source model, though the new name is yet to be decided due to trademark issues. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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