[icebraining]

Well, it's not "GPL software", it's software that's also distributed under the GPL. That's being freely distributed at all is a win compared to most commercial software.

And in fact, it could be argued that it's better (for rms' goals) than MIT/BSD/etc, since the proprietary license will impose some restrictions on its usage by other proprietary vendors.

[pessimizer]

Definitely better, because it allows for GPLed forks, but not commercial ones (unless the copyright holder wants to compete with themselves.).