Can you give me an example of where they've done so without explicit permission from the originator? If you can't, then where's the problem?
Obviously because these "originators" as you called them, mostly work at high tech US companies like IBM, HP, Sun, who have access to the best technology we have to offer here in the US. They then clone other software, mostly from the US and often made by their parent company, and give it away to the rest of the world via Stallman's license. Like most Green Party schemes it's a US giveaway program that is designed to attack US companies and support communist governments like Cuba. Thankfully, patents will probably stand in the way, else these kooks left up to their own ambition would give it all away, eventually.