Does the GPL license also allow free updates and downloads directly or a file?

Does the GPL license also allow free updates and downloads directly or a file?

The GPL is about terms for use and distribution of GPL’ed code so as long as you are not violating those terms then it does not matter where the code is downloaded from.

*Drinks coffee*

BUT! If you mean for a plugin that is hosted on this www.ads-software.com site then do not do this part.

is also for using updates and downloads directly from the site or not?

The GPL doesn’t care. But you cannot have a plugin hosted on www.ads-software.com and get updates for your plugin hosted here and update that plugin from a site that’s not www.ads-software.com for that plugin. That would get your plugin closed for a plugin guidelines violation.

https://developer.www.ads-software.com/plugins/wordpress-org/detailed-plugin-guidelines/

Which isn’t a GPL thing. If you host a plugin here on this site you have to comply with the terms for that plugin hosting.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 11 months ago by Jan Dembowski. Reason: Grammar

I’m not going to host a plugin here. And I’m not building extensions. Only user.
I’m going to ask if I’m allowed to use updates and downloads under the GPL license even though the updates are coming down from a server whose owners don’t want to give updates to anyone who doesn’t pay them.
The main question is do you have a link to it that says the obvious answer to that.

Read this for GPL 3.

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html

I personally prefer code licensed GPL 2 or later.

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.en.html

How a code creator licenses their code is up to them, in this case you if it’s your code.

The GPL is about protection for code use and distribution. It does not cover where or how the code is distributed. As long as you are not limiting how people can use that code, how people can modify that code and how people can spread or share that code or derivatives (changes or modifications) of that code then you’ll be fine.

the updates are coming down from a server whose owners don’t want to give updates to anyone who doesn’t pay them.
The main question is do you have a link to it that says the obvious answer to that.

The license does not cover what anyone charges for the option of downloading. Once you have it, you can distribute it for free or for money, if you want. The license is for that.

Do you have a source for that? I’d be happy

The link Jan gave is the license. You are probably looking for the FAQ, and the second section of the FAQ, which starts here: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0-faq.html#WhyDoesTheGPLPermitUsersToPublishTheirModifiedVersions

I found a name that says a user can transfer a copy of the versions to someone else, but I did not find a written name that allows direct download from the source site without the publisher’s permission.
Did you find something like that?

That is, because it is downloaded on a site owned by the man, direct download from the site owner may be an unethical use of his product, in which case it is unethical use of his server.
It is unlike anyone who has paid a fee, and it then transfers to someone else.
It may not be so. I’m just asking a question.

You’re not reading it correctly and you’ve been answered already. ??

The GPL is all about software rights and distribution. It does not say anything at all about where the code is downloaded from. It does not care at all.

Asking about paid, where it’s coming from is like asking if the GPL talks about rain on Mars (it doesn’t). Your questions are these.

Does the GPL license also allow free updates and downloads directly or a file?

I’m going to ask if I’m allowed to use updates and downloads under the GPL license even though the updates are coming down from a server whose owners don’t want to give updates to anyone who doesn’t pay them.
The main question is do you have a link to it that says the obvious answer to that.

It is unlike anyone who has paid a fee, and it then transfers to someone else.

The answer is the same: the GPL says you cannot restrict distribution of the code. You cannot prevent users from using that code, from distributing that code, from changing that code, from distributing the changed code.

GPL code can’t have those restriction. Asking these questions about where the code is downloaded from, who’s server, who paid or transfer or fees is not about the GPL.

The GPL is about those questions as much as it is about rain on Mars. Nothing in the GPL is about that.