There's the full story (or at least his side of it) over on his website.
http://www.yanfly.moe/wiki/Fossil_and_Friends_Start_Drama
Unfortunately altruism is incredibly undervalued in this community nowadays. Though that shouldn't be too surprising, you only have to take one look at the rpgmakerwebs twitter which is 90% adverts for paid DLC to see where the value of that stuff tends to lie.