[jrm4]

That's kind of weird, the whole thing strikes me as a reasonable fudge around the GPL (which I agree is incredibly important.)

Do your homework in the ecosystem and you can get that experience, or just pay to get around it seems reasonable, if definitely not ideal?

[scarecrowbob]

Yeah, that's a legitimate point of view.

I've seen enough cases where folks have paid to "get around" some problem and it's ended very poorly, often require extensive work that could have been don correctly the first time with some bespoke code instead of many layers of kludges.

Could just be a problem with low-rent software dev in general, but the plugin ecosystem doesn more harm than good in that area, at least IME.