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Copying is not theft.
Copying GNU GPL code without licensing your derivative code as GNU GPL and publishing it where it's publicly accessible, and then using your derivative code to generate profit for a corporation, is definitely theft. Just because it's open source doesn't mean you can just do whatever you want with it, the original programmer still has rights over the code they wrote.
It literally isn't.