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I can understand your point, John, and agree that people should be able to do what ever make s/he feel comfortable with.
However, there are reasons why paid for modules might questionably be, in most circumstances, private assets.
If a person/company pays for XOOPS development and the freely available modules they use, pay for new bespoke modules, and then say: "these are my assets" - fair enough, you bought the house and want to keep the furniture.
But if a person/company draws on other people's efforts and then pay only for special features just to keep them private, is a bit disrespectful, isn't it?
There might be a point for such a behaviour, if the reproduction of the materials included a substantial cost in it. But when it's a question of a space available for a simple copy of a bunch of numbers - red neon lights that say "why not" begin to flash in ever increasing rate and height...
Aharon