And from the latest comment on this issue (https://github.com/christianbundy/octotree/issues/1#issuecom...): It seems that the project switched from MIT to AGPL around 2016, so all the contributor commits before that doesn't matter. Excluding those, there's only 10 commits from people outside the team, which frankly isn't a big deal.

Anyways, it's frustrating that the author is kinda acting a bit scummy for something that might not have been even a problem. If he was a bit patient and had just got permission from those people beforehand... (I don't really think any of those 10 people would object to it since the commits aren't that big, unless one of them is a free software movement purist perhaps) And people generally agree on Mozilla's "95% author coverage" line so I think this controversy might have been a bit overblown.