“This subtle, almost unnoticed modification effectively privatized the open-source repository by this individual, preventing any further open-source collaboration.”
Organic Maps markets itself as private and open source. Its metaserver, which routes every user to a map CDN, ran as closed code on a Cloudflare Worker. On November 23 Alexander Borsuk stripped its MIT license with the comment “No MIT yet, sorry,” and the next commit turned on logging. Nobody else was asked, and the rest of the team found out by reading the commit history.