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Directed towards LSPDFR team & contributors
 
From the few threads I've seen mentioning the issue, none have received a straight answer as to why LSPDFR (not LCPDFR) is closed-sourced (proprietary). It seems like the perfect software that could benefit from community contributors. With a wide range of performance issues and to-do features, allowing the rather large existing developer community (any C# developer with a little RagePluginHook knowledge) to make pull-requests or fork the software (if the added features don't align with the official vision) would only benefit everyone.
 
For example, the official team rejects the suggestion of natively implementing some of the heavily requested features from the no longer supported StopThePed. If open sourced, any random C# developer could come along and create a fork for anybody who wants those features. Having more people look at (and diagnose) the code will also help spot performance weak-spots. Similar to how some hacker found a way to reduce GTA5 load times by 70% 8 years after the game released. Even with the resources of a multi-million dollar company, having more random developers look at the code can still vastly benefit.
 
Unless I'm missing something, I see no reason for the community-driven software to remain proprietary. Open-sourcing would garnish more donations, better performance, and overall help advance the software. Licensing it under something of a GPL/AGPL license could prevent people from selling forks and taking credibility away from the official project.
 
Similar threads that don't actually address the issue:
 

Probably its a bug with ELS then, since the ELS developer is inactive and hasn't pushed an update since 2017, I don't really know how this would get fixed.

oh ok, i already downloaded the version form lcpdfr.com but this is mayeb the old version 
ill try this one thanks