&gt; However, the GPL lawyers don&#x27;t want to press the point too hard as they could easily lose a lot of hardware that would quickly render Linux useless.<p>Hyperbole aside about how Linux would be useless without nvidia blobs, the situation with nvidia is not about a mere GPL wrapper. The nvidia blob is using parts of the Linux API for which the Linux API explicitly declares &quot;there&#x27;s no GPL here&quot;. This declaration is enforced via C macros.