I'm a Joomla! 3rd party developer and, while I support OSS over closed source any day, I fail to see how proprietary components released separately from the core can be in violation of the GPL. If these proprietary extensions were integrated into the core and redistributed then there would clearly be a problem, but installing independently distributed closed source components, that consumers choose to install is not a violation. There seems to be a general failure to differentiate between source code development (copyright) and the redistribution of GPL and non-GPL code (licensing).
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Posted by: Hayden Young on June 22, 2007 12:35 AM#