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https://hachyderm.io/@binford2k/113308792428772778
Perforce (Owner of Puppet since April 2022) has taken over the greatest Puppet community on Slack. This was an independent Slack that had a non-Perforce people at the helm. Perforce convinced Slack that they should own the community, and Slack removed all non-Perforce people as moderators, banned Ben Ford (Instance Owner) and transferred ownership to Perforce.
It is unclear why Perforce did this, but
https://hachyderm.io/@binford2k/113307921979834122
Ben Ford speculates
Last time I talked to Perforce Legal a few weeks ago, they were excited by our “community owned community space” model. The fact that the company has now taken this subversive and hostile action makes me think that they are about to announce or do something incredibly shitty and want to have iron control over the messaging.
Puppet is currently licensed unter Apache 2.0, and has no AI-Integration nor are Puppet users absolutely required to make recurrent payments to Perforce.
So make your bets.
- Ansible is owned by IBM through RedHat (GPL v3, DCO required)
- Chef is owned by Progress (Apache 2.0, DCO required)
- Puppet is owned by Perforce (Apache 2.0, CLA required)
- Saltstack is owned by Broadcom (Apache 2.0)
and
- cfengine (GPL v3)
CLA: Contributors License Agreement. If you want to submit code to the project, you have to sign a CLA that gives the respective owner company full IP rights to your contrib, enabling them to cleanly unilaterally change the project license at their discretion.
DCO: Developer Certificate of Origin. You have to submit a DCO that asserts that you have the right to contribute the code under the GPL v3 of the project.. The DCO exists to prevent your employer from sueing the project over your contrib, not to transfer rights to the project.
