In reply to Steven Gliebe.

It is always great to see how pro diversity and pro freedom open source communities can be.

Did it occur to you that you don't have a binding contract with those plugin authors that will force them into maintaining the GPL license, that you basically invited people to game the system.

You had an opportunity to create an alternative, instead it was just more of the same. If I need to release plugins as GPL then wordpress.org is the obvious place so no wonder not many people bothered (there are probably more then 170 extensions to woocommerce just by itself).

neither do most plugin sellers outside of the Envato ecosystem

That is a statistic you invented by yourself right? Fact is most people (by a survey probably as scientific as yours) are not happy with the implications of GPL https://wptavern.com/poll-shows-majority-consider-public-redistribution-of-commercial-themes-and-plugins-to-be-unethical