No, technically, Stallman is firmly rooted in copyright law. GPL says you take this software and make derived works, as copyright law says what they are, as lon

No, technically, Stallman is firmly rooted in copyright law. GPL says you take this software and make derived works, as copyright law says what they are, as long as you make derivative works available under the same terms as you received the original software. GPL steers clear of non-derived work. If you use VMWare on Linux, VMWare is not a derived work as far as copyright law is concerned and there is no relation between them as far as GPL is concerned. This SSPL, is another story.