The reason "you'll be forced to give away the code" probably comes from the circumstances where taking down a product while rewriting all GPL parts from clean t

The reason "you'll be forced to give away the code" probably comes from the circumstances where taking down a product while rewriting all GPL parts from clean table is a worse problem, financial or otherwise, than GPL'ing the whole source code. Given that you wish to keep using the GPL parts, too, then the truth really is that you will be forced to give away your code. It seems that many do. How many times have you seen in the news that "Initech taking their MongrelSuite(tm) off the market for the time being because of violations of the GPL" versus "Initech forced to relicense their MongrelSuite(tm) in open source due to viral GPL licensing"?