Re: Asking ffor package to be released under GPL compatible licenses

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 9:42 PM, Carnë Draug <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 6 February 2014 20:17, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On Thu, 2014-02-06 at 12:09 -0800, fgnievinski wrote:
>>> I've taken the liberty of adding a caveat to:
>>> <http://wiki.octave.org/Asking_for_package_to_be_released_under_GPL:_examples>
>>
>> I have removed this. It is the goal of the GNU project to promote free
>> software and the GPL. The Mathworks purged the GPL from Matlab Central
>> some years ago so that they could add restrictions such as disallowing
>> the usage of the code outside of Matlab. We want to promote the GPL in
>> order to ensure that this can't happen again. As it is right now,
>> Matlab File Exchange is misleadingly distributing software that
>> appears free but is in fact non-free.
>>
>> If authors are already happy giving us their software outside of
>> Matlab File Exchange, then it's not usually onerous for them to allow
>> it to be GPL'ed. One of Agora's goals is to eventually host the GPL'ed
>> code that got purged from Matlab Central. That way, we can ensure that
>> restrictions such as the one that the Mathworks imposed cannot happen
>> again.
>
> I believe there was some missunderstanding here. I put a notice back
> that still warns people when sending an email is not required, without
> any of the legal talk [1]. A link to the FAQ that explains was given
> instead.
>
> Carnë
>
> [1] 
> http://wiki.octave.org/wiki/index.php?title=Asking_for_package_to_be_released_under_GPL%3A_examples&action=historysubmit&diff=4037&oldid=4035

I do not understand something. If the author uses a proprietary
license then one needs to ask for GPL-compatible release. Other wise
is a hussle to upload those packages to libre websites like Agora,
right?
I think the warning only applies if the intention is for personal use.
In the case we want to have it in a free-server then we need
GPL-compatible. Also if one plans to fork it....