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From https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-recommendations.html:

> If the version you've created is considerably more useful than the original, then it's worth copylefting your work, for all the same reasons we normally recommend copyleft.

Wouldn't you consider this advice disrespectful to the original authors as well? The FSF is directly telling you to take the existing project, not even your own re-implementation, and take over and GPL it.



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