I'm sorry to hear you feel that way. We are not discouraging proprietary development, quite the contrary. The platform components are (at "worst") LGPL precisely in order to make all kinds of development possible, GPL or proprietary. We're not going to dictate under which license you must distribute your own work.

I think the most likely reason for all(?) the existing apps being GPL is that because the source is open anyone is able to port it to maemo. I'm willing to bet that most of the ports are done by the users of said applications, not by their maintainers.

On the developer list we might ridicule you for technical goofs but not for licensing issues. We welcome all kinds of development for the platform and are hoping to have a friendly and constructive environment in the mailing lists. Some individuals feel more strongly about licensing than others, but that shouldn't affect technical discussions.

So for development discussions I'd urge you to try to take advantage of the developer community. OTOH if you only have a ready application to announce you're probably right, it makes little sense to do so for the developer community when the developers have and can take no part in the development.