Question What's the point in making an extensions directory with the JED rules?

If you're going to publish the same extensions as the JED, why did you bother to make a new extensions directory? What's the point?

We can't publish our product there at the JED( JS G-KUNENA ) because we don't use the GPL for that product. And we don't use the GPL for that product because we don't believe in it and the way the GPL team has acted to put preassure on and conditionate the Joomla! project development.

Some years ago, licenses preassures came from big software companies. But now it seems it also comes from the GPL itself :ohmy:

We though we could publish our extension in your directory so anybody can easily locate it in case it's useful. But you operate your extensions directory the same way the JED does. My question is: what's the point?

Please don't take me wrong. I don't want to open a dispute here. I just want to ask for some information and whether it's possible to publish our product in your extensions directory.

Kind regards.

I'm not personally aware of the specifics of this case. The opinions expressed below are mine and mine alone.

If the extensions incorporated in the KED were the same as things in the JED I would agree with you. What would be the point? But the extensions incorporated in the KED are not the same things as in the JED and after that I think your argument seems to collapse.

The rules - that items appearing in the KED must conform to the same GNU GPL licensing arrangement that governs the licensing of Kunena - are the rules whether you like them or not or whether you consider them heavy-handed or inappropriate to your needs or not. Even in the most liberal democracies there are rules and, even in those most liberal of democracies, there will be people who dislike those rules. Internet websites are not democracies: ultimately the website administrator has total authority to do whatever he likes to do (as long as it's legal).

It's quite clear to me whether or not your software can be incorporated into the KED as this excerpt from the rules demonstrates:

All the listings in the Kunena Extension Directory are required to be GPL - open source. We model our rules after the Joomla Extension Directory: Terms of Service