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To play devil's advocate for a second - no-one is stealing anything, the code is still right where it was. If I willingly give someone a sandwich, did they steal it? Of course not.
There was a reason that PS chose FreeBSD, and it was because of the licence. If FreeBSD used the GPL then PS wouldn't have used it, hence there never would have been a FreeBSD gaming OS either way.
Exactly, it's a defining feature of the project. They don't care how you use the code as long as you use it. It's just a different philosophy.
BSDs are just doing their own thing and whether they benefit or not from others using their work is not really a concern.
Take OpenSSH, it's used by virtually every operating system and just exists to be used. It's a great contribution to software even if OpenBSD is a tiny marginal thing used by only those that need it. They are cool with that.