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Re:Canonical, Ubuntu, and Why I Seem so Upset About Them All... by pekk on Friday February 19, 2016 @01:17PM (#11135297)
If you are looking at some repository for Ubuntu's source code, and find that their build process isn't perfectly documented as regards the version of gcc they use, that really isn't a GPL violation no matter how hard you try to claim that it is.

You don't have a moral right to base a distribution on binaries produced by some other distribution. Unless you are going to produce actual evidence of a legal violation you really don't have anything here.

Re:Canonical, Ubuntu, and Why I Seem so Upset About Them All... by mjg59 on Sunday February 21, 2016 @02:07AM (#11143637)
Not sure whether this was aimed at me, but I don't believe that having source be difficult to build is a GPL violation.