The problem is that a good part of these packages ARE maintained by either people in Nokia or their subcontractors, just have no official status (see PyMaemo, PySide, etc). For packages not maintained by Nokians directly, I understand your point - but the idea is just to explore how we can deal with this split better, not just that "Extras should be allowed" per se. It's about working out a protocol how packages (mostly libraries) can get to be used from both Extras and Ovi without a lengthy tug-of-war where (looking from the outside) both ends are pulled on by Nokian affiliation.

PS. Forwarding to list