Yugabyte K8s Operator Image Licensing Question

Hello. I had a question about the licensing of the open source Yugabyte K8s Operator’s images. By default, Yugabyte K8s Operator uses quay.io/yugabyte/yugabyte-k8s-operator as its image. Is this image free to use without a license?

A prior GitHub message from a Yugabyte mantainer mentions that the operator repo’s bundled chart does not require you to use Yugabyte Anywhere or its license: Is the operator production ready? · Issue #30 · yugabyte/yugabyte-k8s-operator · GitHub . But when I look inside the image that the chart uses, it seems to be using Yugabyte Anywhere’s binaries which are distributed under the PolyForm free trial license.

To answer my own question, Aman Njhawan from the Yugabyte team confirmed that the “yugabyte-k8s-operator” image is usable for free under the Apache license.