Yeah I find GPL to be ironically non-free because it removes the right for anybody to use the code as they see fit, basically adding a restriction on the developer.

I find it absurd when people force me to use GPL for my research work and they aren’t even in the field to know that adding restrictions on something thats good for the scientific benefit is foolish. RMS isn’t funding research or building any kind of quantum computer, it’s the big corporations that do that. This is just involving politics in science.

Forcing GPL for research is foolish because nobody would be interested in implementing your work. After all, it’s those big corporations that have enough funding to take up on bigger ideas and research.

GPL is fine for basic software for consumers and I’d argue it should be used more but for research, its just a bad license.

How about LGPL