I think the whole GPL issue gives us a great yardstick with which to test the intentions of the people we do business with. Bypassing enough of the GPL isn't really hard, time consuming, but not very difficult. The question is why would you want to avoid it?

If you want to be part of the community then choose GPL and stick to it. If you want to milk the community from outside then ignore GPL.

It will never go to court so whether you want to meet it or not is a matter of conscience.