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throwaway129472··on HashiCorp Vault forked into OpenBAO
There's no overall consensus within engineering about the change itself.

What is amusing is that most of the public response has been aimed at Terraform whilst internally Terraform wasn't the concern. Gruntworks and the others were not mentioned internally.

It was Vault. It was IBM.

throwaway129472··on HashiCorp Vault forked into OpenBAO
Hardly surprising that IBM is doing this as they've been commercializing Vault for some time [0].

[0] - https://www.ibm.com/products/secrets-manager

Disclosure - I work for HashiCorp and IBM has been mentioned by name in relation to the license change.