A private license? Doesn't that practically mean no one can copy it outside of the usecase of doing a Github pull request as prescribed by the Github licensing?

yeah especially for vibecoded apps.

What the heck is going on in the commits though, the messages are useless ("Update frontend (1 files)") and there's tons of "Initial commit — CryptIRC v0.3.0" commits.

The index.html is insane. 12.5k lines long, everything embedded in it