a contractual obligation is exactly the type of hassle I believe they are trying to avoid. freenode deals with a lot of closed source and for profit projects,

a contractual obligation is exactly the type of hassle I believe they are trying to avoid. freenode deals with a lot of closed source and for profit projects, the idea that the ban is purely for those reasons is "very" far fetched. the freenode admins have said multiple times that they will be happy to reverse their position as they have in the past the entire problem seems to be down to a lack of communication between mibbit and freenode, and both sides have blamed each other for the miscommunication. after witnessing axods attempt at communicating, and seeing freenode communicating find with a large number of other partners, Its fairly reasonable to assume axod needs to the communication issues sorted at his end.