TL;DR* Here's what the license entails:
1. Anyone can copy, modify and distribute this software.
2. You have to include the license and copyright notice with each and every distribution.
3. You can use this software privately.
4. You can use this software for commercial purposes.
5. If you dare build your business solely from this code, you risk open-sourcing the whole code base.
6. If you modify it, you have to indicate changes made to the code.
7. Any modifications of this code base MUST be distributed with the same license, GPLv3.
8. This software is provided without warranty.
9. The software author or license can not be held liable for any damages inflicted by the software.
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I agree here. I don't believe that statement would apply.
Functionality is added to the open source firmware that sends instructions to the closed source microprocessor. Those instructions are not obfuscated, and no other communication is done. It's essentially one open source program giving a closed source ones simple command line switches, and reading the return code.
This seems like a legitimate aggregate, based on the description.
Now if there were secret undocumented actions caused by activating commands in a specific sequence, then things would be a bit more questionable. If there is data encoded into the sequence of commands that the coprocessor detects (and affects it's ability to succeed or fail), then that would be abuse, unless the required sequences themselves were documented in the open source side. If you have undocumented magic sequences, then you are concealing some of the source.
From the way it's described, there is no issue.