It still does not explain much. We already have a bunch of custom package fields, license could be just another. Even now, the Application manager uses these package fields to determine which packages are shown to the user and which aren't.

On the second quote, community and OSS devs is exactly what Maemo brings to the table. It's completely unclear what community MeeGo's RPM switch wants to cater to here ? I'm not exactly sure Moblin has more community devs than Maemo does.