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Re:If it's not practical to redistribute, it's not free soft... by paulajohnson on Monday November 23, 2015 @06:32AM (#10613997)
I think that you could make a good-faith effort to get rid of as many as possible, for instance by grepping the code tree for the word "Canonical" (with a capital C) and manually scanning all images. Then if Canonical find something you missed you can promptly remove it. At that point any infringement is de minimis and not something they can build a case on.
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Re:If it's not practical to redistribute, it's not free soft... by delonia on Monday November 23, 2015 @07:34AM (#10614212)
Garrett is proposing another wild goose chase, just because he dislikes Ubuntu so much.

Even the GPL licence has a "no warranty clause". The software is "as is", it is your problem to keep the pieces when it breaks. You can imagine a person spinning this into "you cannot trust open-source because they do not offer just a bit of warranty".

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