@p11 >Public domain is freedom.
Yes, provided software and the source code has validly been placed into the public domain, that is free software.

The drawbacks is that it's not legally possible to release something to the public domain in many countries and how that people and companies can take public domain stuff and remove the freedom and often do.

@trump >gpl is a eula and they just cope and seethe about that
No version of the GPL is an eula, considering that eula's are designed to take the users freedoms and attempt to restrict activities that are legally permitted, while all versions respect the users freedom.

GPLv3:
2. Basic Permissions.
All rights granted under this License are granted for the term of copyright on the Program, and are irrevocable provided the stated conditions are met. This License explicitly affirms your unlimited permission to run the unmodified Program. The output from running a covered work is covered by this License only if the output, given its content, constitutes a covered work. This License acknowledges your rights of fair use or other equivalent, as provided by copyright law.

9. Acceptance Not Required for Having Copies.
You are not required to accept this License in order to receive or run a copy of the Program. Ancillary propagation of a covered work occurring solely as a consequence of using peer-to-peer transmission to receive a copy likewise does not require acceptance. However, nothing other than this License grants you permission to propagate or modify any covered work. These actions infringe copyright if you do not accept this License. Therefore, by modifying or propagating a covered work, you indicate your acceptance of this License to do so.

Companies cope and seethe that they can't just take the software and make it proprietary, as that would consistent copyright infringement.