So, I don't understand -- had you known that this license change to prevent competitor use of their product, would you not have bothered to add the functionality you contributed?
No idea. I contributed 8ish years ago when vault was a significantly smaller project (it was 9mo old at the time) and IIRC there was nothing like hosted hashicorp back then. I just wanted to put into vault a CA keypair I used easyrsa to generate and that didn't work without a good deal more crypto plumbing, and I tried to make it a bit more futureproof while I was there. I had no real idea that 8 years down the road I would be tired of corpo life and tired of having to fight to contribute to OSS and might want to earn money in that sphere.
Today, absolutely. I would simply choose another piece of software to build on and contribute to. Or build my own if I thought something open enough and good enough didn't exist yet.
