Decentralized communication protocol Matrix shifts to less-permissive AGPL

Previously discussed:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38162275 - A new home and license (AGPL) for Synapse and friends (13 days ago, 299 comments)

https://matrix.org/blog/2023/11/06/future-of-synapse-dendrit... (Matrix Foundation blog post)

AGPL is DFSG: https://wiki.debian.org/DFSGLicenses#GNU_AFFERO_GENERAL_PUBL...

This is fine.

This follows quickly on the heels of the Matrix Foundation giving up on developing and saying everyone should use the software developed by Riot.im/Element.io corporation.

What are Matrix Foundation for now then? They say:

> act as a neutral custodian for Matrix and to nurture it as efficiently as possible as a single unfragmented standard [0]

But do they have any reason to be neutral now? Since some of the "legal directors of the non-profit Foundation" are co-founders of New Vector. There can be a conflict of interest.