> This seems to be true to a certain extent.   Along the lines of "we've
> shown that cisco (linksys) routers contain staticly linked GPL'ed code,
> therefore we demand that the entire source be released."

Yes, but the license for the code demands that.

All they have to do is to not use any GPL'ed code in order to prevent
this. This isn't that difficult. The license is displayed visibly in
the source code for all properly GPL'ed code.
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