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It's a great project, but it isn't Open Source (and definitely isn't Free Software) due to the NonCommercial restriction on its license.

Creative Commons recommend against using their licenses, including NC-SA, for software -

https://creativecommons.org/faq/#can-i-apply-a-creative-comm...

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Thanks for pointing this out. This is a fundamental and major distinction that can easily be missed—the noncommercial use restriction means that it's tied to this vendor and the people who want to spend their nights and weekends enhancing the vendor's profitability. It makes it really difficult to form a community.

Yes, this came up before as well. It was a fine distinction that I wasn't aware of.

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