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Are you implying they had no right to do that?
by fishnchips 3y ago
Are you implying they had no right to do that?
- CuriousCosmic 3y agoStrictly speaking it is on Hashicorp to prove that they had the right to re-license the code. Which would require listing all contributors and whether a given contributor gave written agreement to re-license the code or whether they had signed a CTA or CLA. To my knowledge they have not done that so anybody whose code is being used without permission could fight them on copyright infringement. And worth noting is that they don't have a particularly small number of contributors. Terraform has over 1700 contributors and many of the other repos have over 1000 contributors or close to 1000 contributors (unsure of the overlap). If they only started requiring a CLA or CTA later into their development, they probably haven't gotten permission from all the rights holders.