That is neither here nor there. The GPL is ideological in a way that sits well and has done so for a very long time with, I assume, pretty much the entire Linux

That is neither here nor there. The GPL is ideological in a way that sits well and has done so for a very long time with, I assume, pretty much the entire Linux community. This also seems to have been the case with the previous CoC, as well as the CoC:s that a lot of other communities use. A CoC does not need to be inherently partisan and divisive. The Contributor Covenant is, though.