I hate to see that happen but if you force developers to basically donate their work thats what will happen.
Chris do you know how easy it is to take someone elses work and make it so that it does not need a license. Lets say that some poor guy wants a video plugin and he has no clue how to code one, or another dev is struggling with code and cant get it right, they will just buy my plugin copy the code and then come back and say oh sorry it dont work i want a refund, and bam they get my work for free.
Now most of this is currently the case as we speak, it is also part of being in an open source community, there is risk, but at least i get the chance to say let me fix it it first. I would feel much better about some of this if we were allowed to encrypt part of the code so that it could never be used on another domain but it would be open enough for the customer to fix if they had to.
sorry i had to combine the two posts, i have to keep marcus off my back lol