The sad part is that it took RMS making excuses for sex trafficking for him to get kicked out. He's been a hindrance to the free software movement for many years now, in technical/licensing/endorsement/general image matters.
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How is RMS a hindrance to the free software movement when it comes to licensing? Did he do something to the GPL that causes an issue?
Not the GPL itself (though you can argue about its less than ideal features), but e.g. there is a horrible hack in libgcc licensing that is designed to impose some bizarre requirements on the way you compile software with GCC if you don't want your binary to automatically be GPL.
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And this is all because RMS has a deep fear that someone might try to use GCC together with proprietary software, the same fear that has led to GCC's reluctance to provide useful interfaces for AST and the like, which powerful IDE integration needs.
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Also, there's that abomination of an EULA called the AGPL (it violates Freedom Zero, the most fundamental freedom that distinguishes free software licenses from proprietary EULAs).
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