IANAL, but even if you eliminated all of the GPL'd code from your codebase, there's a possibility that some of your code could be a derivative work of the elimi

IANAL, but even if you eliminated all of the GPL'd code from your codebase, there's a possibility that some of your code could be a derivative work of the eliminated code, setting you up for copyright issues. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design might be useful.