Pretty old news.
Pretty old news.
My apologies, I agree with you.
Classing things as strictly "bad" and "good" is too simplistic for most situations. Most things have elements of good and bad.
Keep in mind that the GPL is not an end in and of itself; it's a cute little legal hack to create a self-contained domain that simulates a world without copyright, with a one-way boundary to ensure that things stay inside that domain (there's a fairly straightforward game theory analysis of why this gives GPL-style licenses a competitive advantage over BSD-style licenses, but that's getting off topic).
So, in that context, it actually makes sense to simultaneously support strict enforcement of the GPL and oppose copyright.
Of course, most people don't think copyright is intrinsically immoral and thus won't find the above perspective persuasive, but I'm pretty sure that's roughly where people like RMS are coming from.
I don't actually think the source code publishing requirement is necessary; something like CC BY-SA would probably suffice.
I think even that isn't the end in and of itself. The ultimate goal of GPL is freedom. In a totally copyright-free world one could make GPL code derivatives restricted by hardware that only runs signed binaries (tivoization).