[rst]

Your reading of what is copyrightable may not be entirely in accord with the US Supreme Court's, which has ruled that mere compilations of factual data (a telephone directory in the case that set the precedent) are not copyrightable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_Publications,_Inc.,_v._R....

If someone is trying to apply the GPL to stuff which isn't legally copyrightable in the first place (as may be the case here), then their copyright isn't enforceable, and neither is the GPL.