I don't understand why so many open source developers don't want truly free software. Your software isn't free if people can't do whatever they want with it.

"Evil" is also a bad descriptor to use. If I started giving out apples for free on the street (of which I had an infinite supply), I wouldn't be upset if nobody came back with an improved apple for me to use instead.

> I don’t just want to do this for my little project; I want to slowly change the discourse. I’m not sure how to do that effectively, if it’s even possible.

So he's decided that as the supreme arbiter of what is good and just that he'll be trying to slowly boil open source's collective frogs. How narcissistic.

> How can I bring more attention to this issue given the relative popularity of my project? Do I write a blog post? A callout in the documentation?

No. Because it doesn't matter.

I share your sentiment. He needs to decide if his software is open-source or not.

It goes both ways. Open-source devs don't owe you free bug patches. People profitting from open-source don't owe you a share of their income.