If nexus had offered mod authors a simple mod pack opt-in one way trapdoor CHOICE of "This mod is available to include in modpacks (but archives would have to be kept for it to work) YES|NO", there would be no problem.

If nexus had offered mod authors a simple mod pack opt-in one way trapdoor CHOICE of "This mod is available to include in modpacks (but archives would have to be kept for it to work) YES|NO", there would be no problem.