And?
If they are doing most of the development they need a way to finance that.
Selling GPL exceptions is a Stallman approved tactic.
If they are doing most of the development they need a way to finance that.
Selling GPL exceptions is a Stallman approved tactic.
(The natural corollary to this is that if the Element/Matrix folks—or anyone—were to ask you for a CLA excepting them from the project's own open source license, then you could/should feel comfortable kindly requiring them to pay you for it—a response which should be the default in the open source world, although it unfortunately is not.)
* i.e. so you can make proprietary software
And in reality it depends a lot on my level of contribution. If I have dozens of lines of code in a big project, then who cares, all I really wanted was for my pet bugs to get fixed.
If I contributed major features or thousands of lines of code there, then I would be very mad. But I would also be very capable of maintaining an open source fork of the project.