This is a copyright issue just like any other.  Thus the normal court system <i>should</i> be able to make a decision one way or the other.  If the reality is that literally no one is capable of adjudicating this issue, then there is literally no teeth to the GPL since who could make a decision on it.  I believe that&#x27;s not really the case though.<p>And of course lawyers are always going to argue, that&#x27;s literally their job after all.  However, having some actual solid ground here would be helpful since &quot;exceptions&quot; abound, and it&#x27;s basically &quot;if we like you or we&#x27;re forced to do because you have market power (nvidia), then it&#x27;s totally cool&quot;.  Land on the wrong side of that and you&#x27;re getting bashed (again note the difference between Canonical distributing zfs vs nvidia&#x27;s graphics binary).