Talk about shooting themselves in the foot then... including GPL (I'm assuming here) code in a library so anything statically linked with it becomes GPL..

Unless you can dynamically link to it, in which case, there's no problem.

But they should be making it easier for commercial projects to move to the GP2X, not harder.

How much support have you had from the GP2X forums?

it would be a real shame if this cool device went down in the annuls of history as a cute device for playing emulators... and that's all...

It needs real, commercial games now. That would quash one of the biggest criticisms it has from users outside of the circle.