I didn’t say the word spirit. It’s my opinion that if a developer creates a theme or plugin that is not licensed under the GPL like the platform it works on and is used by millions of people, that is a slap in the face to everyone who has contributed to the project.

Say what!? I have a publicly available WP plugin, that is really plain PHP class, packaged as WP plugin for convenience alone and not derivative by any stretch of imagination.

Telling me how to license work that is mine and mine alone is slap to my face.

The platform argument is "spirit" argument.

What I don’t understand is why you are for the idea of themes and plugins to have a proprietary license within an open and free environment. From my perspective, you’ve been fighting for the rights of developers to license their work however they please, regardless of the license the platform they are building on or around has. Why is that or am I missing the boat?

Why only proprietary? What about GPL-incompatible open licenses? Are they evil as well? Should developer of theme I use at my blog be slandered and threatened to be sued because he released theme under Creative Commons?

Supposedly he is just as guilty, just as bastard and just as "breaking law".

Why go against the grain when you can go with the flow where everyone is happy.

Why are there different religions? Countries? It is easy to say "I am right, everyone agree with me", it is hard to prove that. And clearly WordPress project has some issues in proving department, or we'd all be that happy content bunch in the flow.