My personal view is that PyPI have always been free to do pretty much what they choose - that’s the nature of a free service (you pay nothing, so you can expect nothing). These new T&Cs basically set the expectations for paying customers to be the same, just using legal terms that will make sense to such customers.
I do have some concerns around the new paid features - while it’s essential that PyPI has some form of sustainable revenue stream, I imagine it will be difficult to avoid some level of prioritisation for paying customers. But (a) at least we’re not using VC funding, with its “make a profit” imperatives, and (b) this is unrelated to the T&Cs which make no suggestion that priorities will change in any way.
Agreed. Getting that email out of the blue was a bit of a shock. And I’m closely involved with the packaging community, so I would have expected to have had at least some indication that this was on its way.
Frankly, I hope that at least some of the funds PyPI get from the new paid features will be invested in improving their community involvement and consultation. I don’t know to what extent the PyPI admins currently expect this to be coming from the PSF, but if they do, then it’s not working very well 