@maija @nyanide You're not forced to use the same license.

There is the option of licensing under the same license OR licensing under a compatible license.

If you go make a derivative work of some GPLv3-or-later software, you are free to license your changes under MIT expat or any other compatible license.

As a whole the software will be GPLv3-or-later and defend the users freedom, but your part will always be MIT expat.

It's quite strange to be demanding the ability to sublicense other people's software and make it proprietary.


You are allowed to freely distribute compiled binaries - it's a matter of including the source code (trivial to do), or including a written offer for such source, or keeping intact the written offer for sources.

The GPLv3 was even adjusted to be able to freely distribute binaries over bittorrent while following the license, without having to include the sources in the same torrent.