&gt; The GPL wrapper method has long been considered to be a subterfuge that GPL lawyers think judges would be able to see through.<p>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>If nVidia, for example, got scorched by the GPL and started releasing binary-only drivers only for FreeBSD, Linux would start losing a lot of corporate seats.