Seems to stand for "Terraform Automation and COlaboration Software"
Yeah so basically TACOS are ci-like tools / control planes for Terraform. The OG one being Terraform Cloud.
The term TACOS was coined by Piotr Zaniewski here: https://itnext.io/spice-up-your-infrastructure-as-code-with-...
(December 2020)
The TF bridge is interacting. If they really want to remove liability they'd just leave TF out of the repo and shift all liability to the end user where the first step runs a package install that brings in terraform.
Has an attorney who practices in this area reviewed this sentence in their capacity as an attorney (e.g. to a client of theirs, and not as free legal advice on Twitter et. al.)?
The GPL has a specific exception for GCC that prevents it from polluting the licensing conditions of compiled programs.