Founder of n8n here. For the people that do not have multiple hours to read the whole thread with its almost 378 comments (some of them quite long). It actually resulted in the creation of fair-code (https://faircode.io/) and later the Sustainable Use License.

Here a more concise version of the fair-code background: https://blog.n8n.io/fair-code-for-sustainable-open-source-al...

and here information about the Sustainable Use License switch: https://blog.n8n.io/announcing-new-sustainable-use-license/