@landley The sad part is that you are in fact correct.

The only thing #Copyleft like #GPLv3, #AGPLv3 and espechally #AssholeLicensing of the #SSPL, #RHEL and #grsecurity kind can do is commit #AssetDenial and even that is flaky as one can only put actual #code under a license and not an implementation of something like a #Codec...

...But those are usually covered by #patents and other legalese trolling efforts, like the way #MELP / #MELPe is licensed so everyone who doesn't want to exclusively make a radio for NATO / U.S. DoD has to arrange a licensing deal woth half a dozen tech giants, so #Codec2 had to be made...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed-excitation_linear_prediction
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codec_2

As of now I am considering to relicense my content under #0BSD and sinve very few of my projects have any external contributions, this should be trivial to do so.

@vk6flab @jupiter for the condition of "static lossless #compression" the bar is extremely low.

OFC it won't be even remotely efficient when compared to modern compression...
Even #LZ77 will run circles around it, not to mention #bzip2, #lzma or high-efficiency vocoders like #Codec2....

https://mstdn.social/@kkarhan/110692504545982742