Moderne quietly relicensed community-contributed OpenRewrite code from Apache 2.0 to a proprietary license, abandoning its open source commitments. This decision risks legal exposure, undermines community trust, and sets a dangerous precedent for OSS stewardship.
What alternatives are there, if any? If it’s largely being used for templating, is it even worth using?
And this is why GPL is the way to go. The Apache License is designed to enable this bad behavior. It's a feature, not a bug.