Under the same meeting ask the lawyer about the linux kernel and where the border is for its license. They will likely give a similar answer, through if the company relies on selling devices with a linux kernel the risk vs reward will result in a very different decision in the end.
GPL 2 has been tried in courts many times, and there is a consensus that Linux kernel's license applies to the kernel (publish your patches) and not applications that use the kernel. E.g. Go is shipped under a BSD license, not GPL, and sidesteps libc for quite a few APIs.
