Kevin's just a straight up .... Do we need to say much else?
It isn't his project. If he wants to own it, he should file a copyright, or privatise the code, or do something. Otherwise, he's just on a massive power trip. Until he does something other than bitch and moan at people throwing their own skittles into the pile, it's a pointless conversation either way.
To be fair to Kevin, he has not in any way made it unavailable, and anyone at anytime is free to copy the entire project to a new fork and do what they want, so it's not like he's taken ownership of Cata, just Cata DDA, which as I understand is his fork (as in, he started it).
I understand being irritated at his behavior, but it's not as if he just swooped out of the blue and stole the project from someone.
It would be best either way to try to keep things civil, even if there are two diverging codebases at some point it would be nice to have friendly enough relations to share good ideas back and forth. And It would probably help Kevin out as well, since the people most dissatisfied with the way he's running the project could then leave, taking their ideas to the new fork where they'll be more accepted (or not). And then the people who stay behind are choosing to continue working with him, so I'd think that would make things less stressful for him as well.
Keep in mind, Kevin hasn't charged anyone a cent, nor has he gained any actual assets from this project. He's doing this for his own reasons, so he's certainly got the right to tell people to go fork themselves, so to speak
. As much fun as internet drama may be, let's not be too hard on the guy, he hasn't stolen from anyone. We could all make a fork right now and call it Cataclysm: No Kevins Club if we felt like it. And if we did, we'd have the benefit of all the work Kevin has done (and of course everyone else who's contributed!)
Just the small discussions I've seen about how to manage such a fork, how to control who has power, and all that seems to illustrate some of the more thankless aspects Kevin's taken on himself.