Sort:  

I know. I bug him now and again on Facebook to come back. He got a little spooked by the license not being truly open source, in his opinion.

Oh, didn't that become fully open-sourced later though?

"Open Source" has a lot of different definitions. In this case, I think point 5 is the problem:

The software is not used with any forks of the Steem blockchain that are not recognized by Steemit, Inc in writing.

Coin Marketplace

STEEM 0.18
TRX 0.16
JST 0.029
BTC 62164.65
ETH 2439.44
USDT 1.00
SBD 2.67