@Scott - our WPDK framework is opensource, under GPL (as all our code) and we will be happy of any contribution; unfortunately as pointed out by Jeff, at the moment we are not able to distribute our plugins through the wordpress.org repo, but we are studying a method. As I previously said, we love WordPress and opensource, so we will continue to support the community and we will give back as much as we can, but I think that wpXtreme could be also a good way to help developers build better software and monetize it. For the record, we're about to officially launch our renewed Dev Center in the coming weeks.

About the fact that a plugin stops working without mothership plugin, it's normal imho because wpXtreme it's also a mini-framework too. I hope you will give us a try and maybe you can give us useful feedback too; if you wanna also contact me personally, feel free to do it!