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by MatthiasPortzel 817 days ago
Yes. The fact that the MIT license is compatible means that the MIT license allows you to fulfill the terms of the GPL—you can fulfill both at the same time. However, fulfilling the (more permissive) terms of the MIT license does not mean that you have fulfilled the terms of the GPL.

A GPL-non-compatible example would be a Business Source License or something non-free. It’s impossible for you to merge a BSL project and a GPL project, because the GPL would require that the result be usable for any purpose, and the BSL would require that the result is not used in production.