Yeah, I think if you read between the lines with the Fortin offerings (Nameless has been ported, Cali is being “assessed”, and NTS confirmed out) and his seeming interest to port them, that its highly likely Neural is making a judgement call based on the popularity of the plug and the amount of effort it will take to port it.
“Licensing” issue for NTS likely = It’s not popular and we don’t want to spend months working on it.
Same with Morello, it may be a cool amp, but did they actually sell all that many of the plug? (I haven’t heard anyone talking about it post-launch)
I’d bet the IIC and Abasi might have legit licensing considerations at play, but I’d bet some of them it’s simply a matter of deciding if the juice is worth the squeeze to port.