What about the specific exception clause to the GPL that Eric Raymond
has been talking about? Evidently, you can tack on a specific
exemption to the GPL which avoids the tainting problem. They used it
first to GPL java programs.
Now don't get me wrong, I personally think it is incredibly idiotic
for a hardware vendor to want to maintain private portions of their
code but I believe that there is a subtlely different interpretation
to the GPL that rms endorses that allows for this sort of thing.
-ben
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