--- title: OpenTofu may be showing us the wrong way to fork | daily.dev description: OpenTofu, an open-source successor to HashiCorp's Terraform, may have illegally taken HashiCorp's code, misleadingly changing the license. This behavior goes... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/opentofu-may-be-showing-us-the-wrong-way-to-fork-qunaer7lw twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: OpenTofu may be showing us the wrong way to fork | daily.dev og:description: OpenTofu, an open-source successor to HashiCorp's Terraform, may have illegally taken HashiCorp's code, misleadingly changing the license. This behavior goes... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/opentofu-may-be-showing-us-the-wrong-way-to-fork-qunaer7lw og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/QuNaER7LW.png og:image:alt: OpenTofu may be showing us the wrong way to fork og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # OpenTofu may be showing us the wrong way to fork **[InfoWorld](https://daily.dev/sources/infoworld)** · 5 min read · 2 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary OpenTofu, an open-source successor to HashiCorp's Terraform, may have illegally taken HashiCorp's code, misleadingly changing the license. This behavior goes against a positive, community-driven approach. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@ombratteng** · 1 upvotes > OpenTofu has published an [official response on Twitter](https://twitter.com/OpenTofuOrg/status/1776398008558493991) --- Tags: [#general-programming](https://daily.dev/tags/general-programming), [#hashicorp](https://daily.dev/tags/hashicorp), [#licensing](https://daily.dev/tags/licensing), [#opentofu](https://daily.dev/tags/opentofu) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/opentofu-may-be-showing-us-the-wrong-way-to-fork-qunaer7lw) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"OpenTofu may be showing us the wrong way to fork","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/opentofu-may-be-showing-us-the-wrong-way-to-fork-qunaer7lw","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/opentofu-may-be-showing-us-the-wrong-way-to-fork-qunaer7lw"},"datePublished":"2024-04-03T15:52:06.285Z","dateModified":"2025-07-28T02:17:56.503Z","description":"OpenTofu, an open-source successor to HashiCorp's Terraform, may have illegally taken HashiCorp's code, misleadingly changing the license. 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