@feld @yomiel >as if we don't know what those are when I explicitly wrote my post the way so I wouldn't have to delve into trademarks
It is a major error to refer to law by the name of a different law and you should not do so, even if it's convenient because you don't have to type a whole extra word.

>There's a million different types of specialized software which solve important problems
Much of that is custom software and is free software if the customer who contracted it had any wit and demanded the source code before any payment could be made.

>that will never be GPL, get over it.
There is 3 licenses is the GPL family; GPLv1, GPLv2 & GPLv3, not just one.

While software does deserve to be defended by the GPLv3-or-later, it's almost always not a problem if it's under another free license.

>write things like this are not serious people and they're definitely not doing anything valuable for society
Quite interestingly it appears that many unserious people tend to do actually valuable things for society, while many serious people are arguably parasitic towards society.