@Inginsub >I’m not autistic enough to read that wall of text
It's light reading and not even a wall of text, but I guess it's a problem if you have a 5 second attention span.

>but GPL can’t be used with code written under normal licenses,
By "normal licenses", do you mean proprietary software licenses?

Eliminating such degeneracy is the thing the GPL family weaponry was expertly crafted towards perfection for.

Every effort was put into making the GPLv3 compatible with other free software licenses, which are listed here: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses

The GPLv3 is not Mr. nice guy, it says no to conflicting terms in other licenses that prevent freedom - but really, license incompatibilities are really the fault of the other licenses and not the GPLv3.

>which is a severe restriction on my freedom
You have the freedom to use the software for any purpose and as a result, you can combine with software under whatever software under whatever licenses for your own personal use.

When it comes to conveying that software to other parties, the GPLv3's requirements for conveying need to be met though.


The GPL family doesn't restrict freedom at all, it restricts the power to take away others freedom, which is a good thing to happen no matter how hard proprietary software developers seethe.