Oh while we’re talking about licensing and “pseudo-this and that” maybe this can also be the time to address the really messed up signature checks in the Dashboard and GUI that shows completely valid and trusted third-party modules as untrusted but the all the validation checks via the CLI actually pass.
Also, this isn’t the first time people have been able to get updates of commercial modules that had expired support and it had nothing to do with “pseudo-repos”. I’m pretty sure the new changes to how licenses are check in FreePBX v17 was actually an attempt to address those outlier cases.
Either way it looks like in order to protect commercial interests the OSS contributors are getting slapped for it because now their trusted and signed modules show as untrusted in the most visible parts of the GUI.