[Snakes3727]

I contributed heavily to a project during its early days and spent almost 2.5 years helping it grow. For awhile i was one of the most active contributors.

Then there was talk of turning the project into an actual business, and myself and a few of the original contributers were offered extremely poor paying jobs. That no one took. Then they got a CEO, investors and we were basically forced out of the project unless we joined the company.

I distinctly remember being in a call where we were told they would be relicensing it eventually and launching a SaaS. To protect our work from being used by large companies. I laughed and pointed out the irony in that call that you were doing the same thing.

After that they changed their policy such they do not accept outside PR's. It has killed any interest in supporting open source projects outside personal stuff.

[MYEUHD]

Did you sign a Contributor License Agreement? If not, then I'm pretty sure it's illegal to keep your changes while relicensing, without obtaining your consent.

[jjmarr]

If you're the most active contributor, you could've just forked it yourself, launched it as a SaaS, and been the CEO.

[your_challenger]

Not everyone wants to be a CEO. Some people just wanna write some good code and contribute to the world.

[Snakes3727]

I just wanted to make a tool to help developers. Then when the SaaS launched they instead focused on adding $$$ features instead of fixing bugs, and started heavily pushing their SaaS anytime you used the tool.

They ended up switching to a terrible model with a previous release where if you were a business or in anyway making money you now needed to pay for licenses and it was comically expensive.

The reality is I could have forked it but I don't have the time and patience to deal with everything that comes from a massive project.

[jamespo]

Come on, at least give us a hint what it is!

[_nalply]

Yes because "pics or it didn't happen"