Trademarks & legal

Independent software. Referential names only.

Heckle interoperates with several third-party products and projects. Their names are used only to identify the systems and providers Heckle works with.

Non-affiliation

Heckle is an independent open-source project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or approved by IBM, HashiCorp, the Linux Foundation, GitHub, GitLab, Gitea, Forgejo, Codeberg, or the maintainers of the Terraform/OpenTofu providers it uses.

Trademark acknowledgements

Terraform® is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) in the United States and/or other countries. HashiCorp is also an IBM trademark. Heckle uses the Terraform name solely to describe compatibility and interoperability.

OpenTofu is an open-source project under the Linux Foundation. Heckle's references to OpenTofu and the Linux Foundation are descriptive only and do not imply affiliation or endorsement.

GitHub and related marks are trademarks of GitHub, Inc. GitLab and the GitLab Tanuki logo are trademarks of GitLab Inc. Gitea's terms identify Gitea names and logos as marks of Gitea or its licensors. Forgejo's published FAQ states that Forgejo has not registered trademarks and that its domains and trademarks are in the custody of Codeberg e.V.

Other company, product, project and service names may be trademarks or service marks of their respective owners. All such names are used referentially to identify compatible systems.

Operator responsibility

Heckle assists with discovering forge configuration, generating HCL and explaining provider behaviour. Provider bugs, API behaviour, incomplete permissions, defaults and upstream changes can result in plans that differ from the existing remote system.

Always review the plan. Heckle cannot guarantee that a generated, imported or reconciled plan is safe, complete, or free from unintended changes. The operator decides whether to run apply and is responsible for the resulting changes.

Heckle licence

Heckle is distributed under the GNU General Public License version 3 or later (GPL-3.0-or-later). Refer to the repository licence for the software's warranty and liability terms.

This page is a practical project notice, not legal advice.