[J876]

Yes, I read the sticky at the beginning of the post!

Everyone's responses to my comment is helping me to understand the situation better. My question about "Team Kodi" is based on the fact that Youtube, as well as dozens of other plugins, are referred to as "Official Kodi Addons". And then this designation is followed by the disclaimer, "Although this is the official Kodi repository we take no liability for any of these Add-ons written by 3rd parties. We are not responsible for their content or application. Any problems please post in the forum thread or contact the foundation".

It seems to me that you cannot have it both ways: it is "official" yet Kodi accepts no responsibility. I guess what this means is that an addon has to "pass muster" before being admitted to the repository, but that is as far as it goes.

Thanks to Team Kodi for providing a dynamic framework for accessing content which is open source!

What about other "Official" repositories like the ones the Linux distributions have?

The majority of the software written by people and companies on those repositories are not supported by the OS maker. They do some testing, but
not to the level that the persons who wrote the software has to do.

The Kodi Official Repository is the same. The addon maker needs to be contacted to get support first.