When Open and Closed source meet in the same object there are two frequent results. Legal obfuscation and Code obfuscation. With a primary result of total bad karma in the end. Here's why. Closed and Open source are by nature Matter V sAnti-matter.
SO??
The Video Card "software" entanglements and soap opera law show theater profit no one but the lawyers! And hurt the would be users on both the free and non-free sides. How?
Lawyers cost BIG bucks. Failure to sue has become a liability too. Failure to "protect" IP can cause you to lose a wholly unrelated case due to "lack of diligence" Which brings this back to the beginning and end of why GPL came to be born. A certain case of wanton software lock in -or more semantically correct to say lock *OUT* I will list a link to that story and why the "Dillligent defense of IP" applies to some soft/firmware.
http://www.gnu.org/events/rms-nyu-2001-summary.txt
Which lists the history of a Xerox laser printer getting a not only closed source driver- but one betraying the users of the printer by being not fully obedient to a human's commands! That literal treason by code is what will happen every time code is kept closed. As in- you cannot fully control that video card if you do not have full source code.
THE LEGAL CRUFT "WRAPPERS" IS NOT ACCESS TO CODE!