[BaronSamedi]

I view the GPL as a form of DRM. It may be DRM for a good cause but it is still DRM. DRM is about control and I don't think that imposing controls is ultimately compatible with the notion of "free software". I get the arguments in favor it but am not convinced.

[cyphar]

I mean, that's just patently false, but the most prominent way in which that statement falls apart is that DRM is designed to restrict users and the GPL has no restrictions on users.

The GPL does place nontechnical restrictions on developers, but those restrictions exist to ensure that bad actors can't add new restrictions to users.

But seriously, "GPL is DRM" makes no sense. Aside from the fact that DRM and the GPL are completely different classes of things, they also have completely contradictory philosophies and are applied and act in completely contradictory ways. That's just FUD.