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The continuous-rugpull part of demanding CLAs is selling other people's work as proprietary.

You'll hear much less complaining if you're selling your own work under a second license.




It feels unfair to describe it as a "rugpull" when the first bullet point, in bold, reads:

> *Grant of copyright license*. You give HashiCorp permission to use your copyrighted work in commercial products.

https://www.hashicorp.com/cla

Unless that text was recently changed, or unless Hashicorp went out of its way to verbally reassure people that they didn't intend to ever exercise that option, I feel very little sympathy for any open source contributor who clicked that link and then was dismayed to find Hashicorp using his work in a commercial product.

Read what you sign, and take responsibility.




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