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

[Carnë Draug]

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