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All you need to handle that is a trademark. You don't need to impose restrictions on binaries other than those that trademark law already imposes.


Yeah, and if you try to add restrictions to the software license itself you'll also end up with GPL incompatible code


Large parts of Ubuntu aren't under the GPL, and as a result Canonical can impose additional restrictions.




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