Worse, if the original author could not keep the site up some asshole would take the code base, start glichess.org and slowly take the credit for it all. Of co

Worse, if the original author could not keep the site up some asshole would take the code base, start glichess.org and slowly take the credit for it all. Of course lofty principles would be cited, like "this is how open source works" or "you should not have used that license if you hadn't wanted this to happen". And many people here would defend the asshole and forget the original author.