Unless I am completly mistaken, the principle of RAPLOC is not that new. They already had that in the 60s with the PUFFS system.
As for the legal thing. While legaly it might be clear, for me that has become a moral question that everyone has to answer for himselfe. I completely understand why SCS wanted to ban mods that could compromise payable addons. Some people would not buy something they can get for free from a mod. So SCS rightfully reserved the right to make money from their investment (the development of the initial game) by selling new plattforms.
Now that SCS obviously wont sell any new plattforms, I see no harm done in modding them in. I see it as a tribute that people still care so much for a game that many years after its release and still try to improve it. While it might be legaly wrong, I hope that SCS sees that this process is driven by a positive force, not a desire to harm.
I can't see the argument that mods will harm military contracts. Considering how willing the gouverments are to pay overprice (consider the price difference of VBS2 and ArmA for essentialy the same game), I have a hard time to imagine that any military would download a (imperfect) mod.
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