Anyone can charge for plugins, or themes, or other code. There are lots of people doing this very successfully for people who use WordPress. But no theme or plugin that wants to charge can be listed in the directory.
If you want to offer the plugins free and without conditions that would be great and they will be re-included after you have made the changes to the readme.txt
If you would prefer to ask for the fee then they cannot be re-included.
It’s that simple.
Mark – why is that exactly? This policy is very user unfriendly (not to mention developer unfriendly).
As a user, I would have no problem with paid plugins being listed in the directory. If fact I demand it. Having a single repository for plugins makes finding what you’re looking for so much easier.
Please ask the WordPress gods to reconsider.
