>> All the GPL does is restrict rights, unlike permissive licenses. > So.. Linux is bad and we should all use BSDs

I did not bring up Linux, much less called it bad, yet you made up a strawman and started attacking it. Good day.

We're talking about the GPL. Linux is a major project protected by the GPL.

A license in isolation isn't interesting. The practical results of projects under a license is interesting.

Linux is a very successful practical result under the GPL and copyright makes the GPL work. Without copyright the GPL would be unenforceable.