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I wonder how this affects Pulumi

It makes it a lot more attractive, as long as they don't hop on the same BUSL bandwagon.

It's just a matter of time. They're Apache 2.0 for now. But they can pull out at any moment just like Hashicorp, Grafana, Mongo any many others..

Indeed they can. Until they do so, however, I'm inclined to give it a second look.

Your line of thinking was that Pulumi uses terraform providers under the hood, right ?

It’s a good question. I suspect several forks might be happening as we speak.

I believe providers are still OSS-licensed.

Correct, according to the Hashicorp license change FAQ - https://www.hashicorp.com/license-faq#How-does-this-impact-t...

And I checked the contribution guide for the aws provider, no mention of a CLA there. I wonder if Hashicorp would be able to pull the providers under the same BSL in future ?

My understanding is that a _lot_ of the AWS provider was written by AWS developers on the clock. I think that pattern holds true for a lot of "official" providers. For that reason I don't expect to see BSL for providers.

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