Yes, I believe that was what the developer was doing a year ago after the first time it happened. I remember him saying that he was struggling to get the official release for his addon. I never saw those ‘developer’ conversations and so its just speculation that he decided to abandond openHAB and the community; so far its been one year since he posted. It would be great if someone could shed some further light on why this happened.
Some kind other has now hacked the byte code and changed the expiry date so that the binding has another year lease of life.