[ahuy2702]

Did a search but couldn't come up with much.  Was wondering why Kodi doesn't decide to go the walled garden approach in regards to add-ons to fight piracy add-ons.  Thus, reviewing add-ons and if deemed non piracy allowed in.  I get this will limit 3rd party repositories, but it would definitely stop Kodi's name from being dragged through the mud.

[jjd-uk]

Simply not worth the effort as it will take someone 2 minutes to undo by reverting, since as an open source project all changes are pushed to github to make code publicly available as required by the open source license.

[DarrenHill]

To some degree the current setup is already this, as the official report is such a controlled and curated source. If you do not "jailbreak" Kodi by enabling and installing third party sources then you have that scenario.

But in the end the point is our stance is the user should be able to make their own choices and decisions on what they do and how they use the software, and also to take responsibility for those choices and actions. This is why we do not block such sources, but require a deliberate action to enable them.

Of course this does not stop "builds" which take away that choice, but again it's all about the users choice and responsibilities. If they choose to go that route then any resulting issues are also theirs to deal with.

In the end we are pro user choice, which is why we do not make such absolute restrictions.