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I respectfully disagree with the suggestion that this is immoral.

Sentry is granting you a license, for free, to do anything you want with the software except provide a commercial competitor to their hosted service. People using the software for free may still decide to contribute code. This is not a one-sided relationship here. Both parties are getting something of value.

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> People using the software for free may still decide to contribute code. This is not a one-sided relationship here.

If the contributor is not allowed to do something with their work that the receiver is allowed to, is that not one-sided?

One-sided would imply that only one party benefits. You clearly benefit from being able to use and improve software, for free, for practically any purpose.

> You clearly benefit from ...

The benefit you speak of is available to both parties. The benefit I speak of is available to only one.

In Open Source, every party gets all the benefits, all the time.

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