I think where some of the conflict comes from is the term "free stuff" for a product that many of us see as being akin to "here's a free cupcake I made for you which you can put on your table but you can't eat it."  we don't want it on our computers as we don't find it useful for anything we do as we want all our images to be royalty free (just in case one day etc) but a lot of the time we pick it up accidentally when we didn't want it on our computers at all.
I think a lot of us would like to see it labeled as fun stuff or something else.  However it is not.  And if we want to pickup what we consider real free-stuff then we just have to be prepared to sift through all that other not for commercial render stuff and probably not complain about that, after all there's no such thing as a free lunch.  It would be really good (as the original poster suggested) if it was easy to see what it was before downloading.  I suspect most of us veterans of poser and 3d know that it is better not to download any free stuff unless it is a daz product that has been put on sale for zero dollars as that has the same EULA as all their commercial products.  
It must be awfully confusing for new people as they probably often put the wrong sort of 'freestuff" right into their main runtimes and then it would be difficult for them to find it and remove it again.
To me a free thing is actually exactly like the original thing only free.  The original thing is like a  thing you buy at daz or renderosity.  The free thing is the same as the bought thing ie with the same license but just free ie no cost.  If it's not the same then it's not free.  However I understand that other people might still find the thing with a different EULA useful even though I don't.  I just don't think it should be called free.
And please no  one say, if you don't like it don't download it.  Because I already don't download it and I don't want to.  I'm  not complaining about it being not free.  I just don't like it being called free.  but that's just my personal opinion.
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