>Keep in mind there is a third option- CodeCov could just be honest about what they're doing.

They are. In no way was I confused about what they are doing when I read this.

It's practically speaking open source for everybody with a poison pill for companies like AWS that have successfully charged rents on open source without giving anything back (like elastic search).

Restricting the hosting monopolist's freedom in order to fund the development of open source appears to make some people extremely angry.