No, it doesn't say that anywhere. The comment just says that they use dash as the main shell, exactly like Debian. But they still ship bash, and in fact depend on it for running scripts which specify it on the shebang. Again exactly like Debian. In fact, RDEPEND means runtime dependency, not build-time dependency.

More evidence?

• Go to chromeos://os-credits and grep for Bash, developer mode or not.
• Kill your Wi-Fi (so that you can't claim that enabling developer mode installs something; you just need developer mode to get a allow terminal access), enable developer mode, open crosh, and let me know what happens when you type "bash".
• Download _any_ image of ChromeOS and tell me what you see in the system partition, /bin/bash

Other GPL-3 packages that are preinstalled on my pixel go:
binutils, coreutils, dosfstools, exfat-utils, fuse-exfat, gdbm, glmark, gmp, gzip, mesa, mtools, readline, pycairo, rsync, rsyslog, samba (of course), .... and just way too many to count.

Well, I still don't understand the concern. All the companies in the world can do it, even Microsoft and Google, can do it, so why can't Jolla?

Jolla, who _used_ to be one of the "most open" mobile devices around, and has disappointed me so much I've had to _publicly apologize_ about it?

I quoted the authors of the license directly contradicting your statement. But this is apparently not enough.

On the other hand, you are just blanket-quoting the entire license and claiming that it satisfies your point of view.

I disagree and literally point how the authors of the license as well as all the largest software companies in the world disagree with your point of view.

Yet you again claim that I'm not providing sources while you have literally again not provided any single source for any of your FUD which as you're basically admitting you have none for. Not even for the "Dutch museum story" that I'm particularly curious about.

Double-standard?