[Vvector]

The "plan" is to take out the contaminated code and rewrite it.

[LiamPowell]

If the rights holder is particularly litigious then I could see them suing even if you agreed to take out their code under the argument that you've distributed it and profited from it. I don't know if there's been any cases of this historically but I'd be surprised if there hasn't been.

[Vvector]

Every open source project has the possibility of litigation. Can't always live in fear of the bogeyman