Licensing is the key?

Licensing is the key?

I would expect that release of the source has very little impact depending upon licensing. I mean what ever the license details that you accept to connect and participate on their system not the one for the software/source.

If they can alter terms and conditions at will to say only this client can be used (and failure to do so will see instant termination of your account plus any other penalties they can get away with etc) then releasing source code in the end becomes a cheap publicity driver and way to get free work done for a while until the decision is made to close the doors as their lead is judged sufficiently big that it is unlikely to be caught.

I don't know what the license says?