> opening it up is sure to produce some positive growth for the development/community side of the project
This is not a "opening up" of anything but the source code, with a permissive license. You're free to fork and change anything you want, but it won't be upstreamed ever as the author did the open sourcing because they are stopping maintenance of the project.
So this is more of a "closing down" with the gift of leaving us with the source code. And for that Allen Webster, I thank you!
Indeed, the community could fork it, change the name and carry on development. But it would no longer be "4coder" but based on/forked from "4coder", as "4coder" would no longer receive any updates from this point on.
This is not a "opening up" of anything but the source code, with a permissive license. You're free to fork and change anything you want, but it won't be upstreamed ever as the author did the open sourcing because they are stopping maintenance of the project.
So this is more of a "closing down" with the gift of leaving us with the source code. And for that Allen Webster, I thank you!