Todd in the Shadows’ video about the many obvious errors and lies in Somerton’s videos includes a bit about the cowriter Nick at 55:49.

https://youtu.be/A6_LW1PkmnY?si=EtBAYfEV9dpAD0-t

Ah yes, let’s create more work for 90% of people because of the 10% who have to do more work anyway.

Looks fine in Sync.

No, it’s licensed. RISC-V isn’t necessarily open sourced either. It’s an open standard, but you can develop your own proprietary designs on it.