It wasn’t OSS.

I’m sorry, but if I put hundreds of hours of work into something and I don’t release it as FOSS then I would want my IP protected. I do believe in FOSS and have a couple projects that are now deprecated and not really used anymore. But that’s MY decision whether it’s released under license or not. You don’t have a right to anyone else’s work unless they say so.

I mean, you contributed to a pirate program and are calling it exploitation of power that they protect their IP?