Confused why Free Download forum contains not-free patterns

applee

I'm bit confused about the 'Free Download' (https://www.pindiy.com/forum-Freedownload-1.html) forum, as the patterns posted there don't actually seem to be free?

I clicked around a few but most of them are charging just as much as any other patterns posted in the regular not-free forums. What's actually making the free forum, well, free?

pitussa

@Turquoise can you help?