Not all addons are GPL licensed. Hell, I think the majority of addons have no license at all. No one can distribute them without the author's consent, which is either given by the author choosing to upload it to a site for distrobution, or explicitly stating in the license (as GPL does) that people don't need to get permission to distribute it.
There's some people around here that don't like the GPL at all.
Originally Posted by Irecinius
Who got the shaft here? users and developers.
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Nope, just the WM users. Developers that want their addons on WM can (
and HAVE) move their stuff over there.
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And for the record, as far as I'm aware, WM does host the GPL or similarly-licensed addons themselves. They only use other site's bandwidth when they can't legally host it on their own... of course the legality of using the other site's bandwidth is the entire topic of this thread.