That said, we are being very careful in Mer. Such as working with vendors on ways for us to use closed blobs and integrating them in images (this may be useful for the Diablo Community SSU project too). We do this because it is a longer lasting solution and gives us better relations with vendors.

But fair is fair - if you included copyrighted material you did not have a license to redistribute, you'll get a C&D. I think Google shot themselves in the foot over this matter though - instead of working out a way this could be useful. I mean, the users already have google apps on their device, why can't they keep them? Nokia went out of their way to work with us to find a solution for these issues and they should be applauded for this attitude.

What we try to do is making a way for the scenario of: if you own a device, you can remix the firmware you have and distribute it to other device owners. - or in Mer's perspective, have HW support blobs and the rest of the system 100% OSS and have things working out of the box.