As I was reading your sentence &quot;go through the effort it takes to violate the GPL instead of...&quot; I was expecting the &quot;instead of&quot; to be just publish the necessary source code. That seems pretty easy to me. It&#x27;s probably easier than trying to get non-GPL versions of things like Linux, which tends to have more widespread hardware support (like, a full set of drivers) than, say, NetBSD. And I say &quot;probably&quot; because I expect these companies have been taking the easy way out.<p>The BSDs still have to rely on Linux compatibility layers in order to use Linux drivers, right?