I would suggest that PR authors should resubmit their work to OpenTF, closing the old PR.

Even better would to leave a note rescinding permission for Hashicorp to include that work, though I'm not sure whether that is a viable strategy.

At the very least, these steps will create more work for Hashicorp and send a clear signal that the community thinks that they have made a mistake.

> Even better would to leave a note rescinding permission for Hashicorp to include that work, though I'm not sure whether that is a viable strategy.

I don't see how that would work. If a valid offer has already been made under a license agreement, it's then entirely up to Hashicorp whether to merge it or not.

I would argue that the license change constitutes a material breach of whatever agreement existed previously, but IANAL so what do I know.

Regardless, the legality of it does not matter. The already significant social consequence would be compounded if they chose to merge something that the contributor no longer wanted to see merged. It might be legal, but it treads even further into an ethical gray area.

Their current CLA provides for a full copyright license grant: https://www.hashicorp.com/cla Assuming that's not new (and I have no reason to believe it is) then contributors were already signing away their right to be choosy in that regard; Hashicorp can already relicense any previous contribution, which is why this change is even possibly in the first place.

I agree that it might cause some bad vibes, but it's no different for these in-flight PRs than it is for all of the historical ones that were already merged.

Responded on a similar Q above.

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