I appreciate your response but based off Jam’s license you shouldn’t have released the software without making the repo public to begin with. It’s in the past now and no sense of crying over split milk. The sad part is how it teared apart Nostr. After Cornychat was released clients refused to integrate it because they didn’t want to offend Derk In my opinion this is when interoperability on Nostr started going downhill. The Nostrati began scrutinizing what constituted as a Nostr client with Fiat Gaf hand waving cornychat as “Not-a-client”. Now that the Nostrati has abandoned Nostr and migrated over to X there is a chance for the surviving misfits of Nostr to regroup and try again.

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Making it open would not have helped with interoperability, unfortunately. Jam was not designed for that, which both Nests and Corny Chat were based on. It would have been good to fully open up, but it’s gone now. There was no attempts though to “lock it down”, and it remained compatible with the base Jam software. The goal of the rewrite was to provide specifications anyone could implement to get their own fully compatible audio room. That got lost after the takeover, somehow. I attribute the downfall more to Primal and fast-moving specs, more than “scrutinizing what is a true client”.