In general, distro maintaners can't help you with legal conundrums you created for yourself (you signed restrictive NDAs and proprietary license agreements and didn't consider the fine print until it was too late) or with other unrelated market problems (lack of popularity, lack of developer interest in supporting your game).

If you need to strip out some parts and there is enough will in the community to replace those pieces that you stripped out, then it will happen. If you have a product that is anywhere near being popular among the FOSS developer communities then I don't think it makes sense for you to claim that this will doesn't exist, or that distro maintainers will lose interest.