Of course had he made it open source in the first place, 'copying' it wouldn't have been a problem!
I think your choice of words is insensitive.
He lost votes to get Dao funding and respect from most of the witnesses and upper-classes of the community when he said he wasn't ready to make his project open-sourced. I'm not sure if this should be used to justify or gloss over unauthorized copying of his work. It's still an awesome website, but it is what it is, an 'unendorsed' clone of Steemworld for Hive.
yes maybe a little insensitive, point taken!