The sourcegraph folks are great. I think these days is a brutal period for startups. I can only guess how things are going. Just yesterday FT.com was publishing "Start-up failures rise 60% as founders face hangover from boom years"[1].
Like Cockroach's recent relicensing, I think we should be thankful for the good years and awesome stuff the last boom era brought, and not be too harsh on the principled founders who now find themselves having to make hard decisions. They're responsible to a lot of people at the end of the day - investors but also employees. Just crashing the whole thing to make a moral statement would be dumb. Employees also count on execs to care for them.
If startups have to make hard decisions to keep things afloat, it's the right thing to do.
** I'm extrapolating a lot here from this post, for all I know things may be rosey at SourceGraph, idk!
[1]: https://www.ft.com/content/2808ad4c-783f-4475-bcda-bddc02990...