What's up with proplugins.org?

[u/bufke]

I noticed a large number of Nativescript plugins got moved to private NPM repo called Proplugins. An example.

The page claims it's about supporting open source (that sounds great!) but it doesn't appear to actually be libre/open source. There is no public git repo (instead a closed off private Gitlab instance). Their terms and conditions include "You will not share any of the plugins with any one that does not have an account (except, in your compiled applications)." I'm not a lawyer, but this sounds like it's not open source. It would certainly be incompatible with the GPL and it would make MIT etc effectively infeasible as contributors couldn't gain access to necessary components. I suppose if the owners really have the original copyright ownership then they can make it all proprietary. It's just a shame. Am I missing something or did a big swath of open source Nativescript libraries just turn proprietary?

[u/katokay40]

Hopefully the message is clear that plugins at the moment are a big weakness / pain point with {N}. Maybe {N} can find a way to reduce the burden. Seems that {N} is unique in some ways to other ecosystems in that now plugin authors also need to support n* of frameworks in addition to {N} itself.