"For the record, I contacted Netgear on this issue on Oct 8th, they responded to me via email 26 hours later with a pointer to a newly posted message on the Netgear site. So, Netgear did not respond to my inquiry directly, though I tried (never a good sign and usually makes me wonder why they're afraid to talk to press?).
"PR gripes aside, this is what Netgear has now publicly posted on the issue of its alleged GPL violation.
""Concern has been raised on the presence of binary modules in the pre-loaded NETGEAR firmware," Netgear's Som Pal Choudhury wrote in an open letter."