Originally Posted by Haleth
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I fear that if a particular type of licensing is enforced, then authors who disagree with it may simply go elsewhere to upload their AddOns.
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I'm pretty sure this will never happen, but I would be one of such authors. WoWMatrix's shenanigans a few years back effectively put an end to many authors' use of GPL or CC or similar licenses - and there's threat of another "AddOn site" starting up; someone has been poaching authors via PMs on here and Curse, asking for permission to distribute their AddOns and then appending "failure to reply will be taken as permission". Sorry, I don't think so.
Besides, many of the older AddOns need to die quietly and/or be replaced by new incarnations - simply being popular does not equate to efficient (in terms of FPS) or elegant (in terms of usability). I've written a few replacement AddOns, myself, when I had need for something that was either dead or made me want to gouge my eyes out with an olive fork after looking at the code.