Some of use distribute GPL software.  I’ve actually distributed the odd change or patch myself (and sent up the RTL8150 patch to the kernel maintainers).  Most of this stuff is offered source-code available on the internet.  The license is very much intact.
Which is why it’s so appauling to see the BSA director making statments like […]

When media companies have to defend their legitimacy in using the online equivelent of air, we all suffer.