How to protect your software from pirates?

Question

Copyright

GNU General Public License.

Answer 1

No way!
Because these are two mutually exclusive factors: "GNU General Public License" and "protect".

Answer 2

Make functionality faster than pirates
Share on torrents faster than pirates

Answer 3

> How to protect your software from pirates?
> GNU General Public License.
Assign your copyright to reprisals against these bad people to a knowledgeable organization, and let it handle it for you (if it agrees, of course).
The first thing that may come to mind is the Free Software Foundation [0] itself, but today this, in fact, is no longer their profile.
Now it is rather part of another, albeit indirectly related to them and already also a very respected organization - the Software Freedom Conservancy (“Reserve of Software Freedom”, literally). [1]
[0] https://www.fsf.org/
[1] https://sfconservancy.org/

Answer 4

this is an open license ... and not a proprietary one , I
remembered from some movie: if you offer everyone who wants sex without a condom, then why buy them ...