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That's what would happen if copyright doesn't exist. If a company releases something, it's immediately public domain, because no law protects it.
The GPL is very much not the public domain.
It's an interesting point that without any IP law, GPL would be invalid and corporations could use and modify things like Lemmy without complying with the license.
But then corporations could not stop anyone from modifying their modifications to things like Lemmy.
Well, they wouldn't need to release those changes publicly.
But then anyone could take them anyway.