I don't really understand your objection (if that's not too strong a word).

You were interested in modifying Everything to add features to Perl Monks. You object (again, apologies if I'm misrepresenting you) to the idea that the Everything team wants you to send any substantial modification patches to them.

vroom is a *member* of that team. If you send him a patch for Perl Monks, it'll get to nate and dbrown as well. (In fact, I copied all three of them on a proposed patch a few weeks ago, and vroom came up with a better solution.)

Now if you're uncomfortable with the idea that patches and modifications in general (not specific to Perl Monks) need to go to the Everything team, that's a different story. I suggest we all wait and see what the 1.0 licence says, especially as comparisons to the MySQL licence are now a little different.

As for Abigail, I doubt she would have contributed patches. She's too busy with other things.