Well Joub, I don't see like that, I see it in this way: Plenty of people wanna play this on multiplayer. The mod is free (no cost) and most important thing is we don't know anything about Lynores since a couple of years ago...c'mon, there's no possibility of contact him.
It's not like if we were stealing the work done, because it's free, it will be enough just crediting him (to show the respect you're talking about and I agree with that).
So as I see it, it's a pitty to look how this "rest in peace", but hey, I don't really care more because now we got RaW wich satisfies all I was looking for in an ancient warfare mod.