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WhatsApp's interoperability agreement doesn't allow GNU (A|L)GPL licenses
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this post was submitted on 07 Mar 2024
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Just dual-license your software under the TNGPL (Totally Not GPL) license that just so happens to afford the same protections.
Fun fact: the GPL license is itself under copyright, held by the FSF, and subject to certain conditions. That's why there's only one "GPL" and it remains the same and everybody can rely on what's in it.
Besides, they did mention that derived licenses or any copyleft licenses are not ok either.
They actually did not. They clearly state (at least in the text posted by the OP) that you are not allowed to license under a version or derivative of the GPL if it would end up copyleft. The main condition is that it is licensed under a version of the GPL.
(To be clear, I'm talking about the second quote, about combining)