Remember, he was CEO but didn't like that role. He stepped down from the CEO role as well as the board so he could continue to hack rather than lead. I agree, its likely not how he wants things to be run but its not his decision anymore.

https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/mitchell-s-new-role-at-hashic...

I'm sure he's been well compensated for his hurt feelings.

Yeah, by those of us who bought in post IPO at $82… this BSL nonsense is particularly annoying to me because I lost a bit of dosh on HCP.

Nonsense? Now that the company is public we can see the issue. They are losing a ton of money. This isn't about quarterly projections, it's about keeping the company afloat.

> He’s someone who _gets_ what an open source company is/should be better than many who tried.

I would have expected him to put in place mechanisms making the license change impossible, if he got that well what an open source company should be.

The license change is only for future changes. The existing codebase cannot be relicensed as HC does not own full copyright on 100% of contributions AIUI.

IANAL, but I don't think anyone can change license of something that has already been published. Doing so would defeat the purpose of having a license, in the first place.