his absolutism also causes people to see BSD as a "problem", a

    "social failure".
If some people think that, they did not get it from me.  I do not call

BSD either of those things.  I say that releasing free software under

a non-copyleft free software license is basically good (i.e., not

evil), but that using copyleft is better. 
    recently we saw theft of BSD to GPL, and a large part of the

    GPL community thinks there's no problem with that, that the

    BSD community is being "petty" to make an issue out of it.
I don't think it is wrong in general to relicense code from BSD to

GPL.  However, in some cases I think it is more useful not to do so,

in order to contribute changes back to the original BSD-licensed

project.
If such an issue arises for a GNU package, and people think it is not

doing the most useful thing, I will look at the issue and then if

necessary discuss it with the developers.
However, if such an issue arises for a program which is not a GNU

package, I will not get involved unless the developers ask me for

advice.