If this truly injures you, you can either do your own rewrite or, like Muse Group, outright buy the rights to the software and relicense.
If this truly injures you, you can either do your own rewrite or, like Muse Group, outright buy the rights to the software and relicense.
https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/1781
Honestly, it sounds like they're deeply scared of long-standing FSF-backed software having to compete (or even be replaced) with alternatives that just happen not to be GPL (e.g. they have similar thoughts on LLVM/clang), to the point where they decide to troll the issue trackers. It feels really childish.
LLVM/clang is worse than just GPL, as far as I understand the design of GCC is intentionally horribly bad to make it painful to integrate with a proprietary tool chain. Of course this means that things like refactoring support end up being basically impossible to build on GCC, so people move to clang out of necessity.
These days GCC does have a plugin interface, but they came up with a really funny hack to try to stop people from using proprietary plugins. Programs compiled with gcc can require linking with libgcc, and the libgcc license is "GPL, except it doesn't apply to software compiled with GCC and all-Free plugins". So their idea is that if you add a proprietary plug-in to GCC, that makes all code compiled like that have to be GPLed instead.
It is, of course, questionable whether this hack would hold up in court. It is also rather useless, because it's not hard to reimplement enough of libgcc to make it work. For example, the Linux kernel only links with libgcc for a few architectures.
They are, for good reason. Big companies hate open source, despite their claims to the contrary. Look at Apple's proprietary forks of all the BSD stuff, and handset manufacturers' proprietary forks of Android. The FSF should absolutely be doing everything in their power to minimize how often this happens.
What forks of what stuff?
Here's the kernel, including all the BSD stuff:
https://opensource.apple.com/source/xnu/xnu-7195.141.2/
You can compile it yourself and run macOS with your own kernel build. Here's a blog by Apple's head of XNU development explaining how that works:
https://kernelshaman.blogspot.com/2021/02/building-xnu-for-m...
You made a claim about "proprietary forks of all the BSD stuff". The kernel is open source. The rest of the OS is written from scratch by Apple, and originally by NeXT, and is not a fork of anything.
Are you standing by your original claim?