In contracts, a poison pill is typically a clause that makes some kind of action prohibitively expensive, usually "killing" the value of the contract. But that'

In contracts, a poison pill is typically a clause that makes some kind of action prohibitively expensive, usually "killing" the value of the contract. But that's not what this is, nor is it what the writer means. The use of the term here is unfortunate because it's not a poison pill in this typical legal/contracts sense, but rather the writer's attempt to characterise the clause as a deathblow for OSS devs.