Technical steps to debrand Ubuntu?

[Liam Proven]

On 13 September 2012 00:27, Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> hi,
> On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 21:54:16 +0100
> Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> So it seemed to me that to replace all these meant essentially
>> rebuilding the whole distro to remove all uses of the word "ubuntu"
>> *ANYWHERE* as that is their trademark which they explicitly and
>> specifically told my company that we could not use.
>>
> thats technically impossible

No, merely very difficult.

>, the word ubuntu is even in the version
> numbers of packages ... the only thing you have to remove is the
> trademarked stuff like logos etc

[[Citation needed]]

> and you cant use the name ubuntu
> in/for your product .... i.e. if you would do a spanish distro with
> enlightenment as the desktop based on ubuntu, you couldnt call it
> "hispabuntu" without canonicals approval ...(similar to iceweasle vs
> firefox)
>
> there are plenty of derivative distros based on ubuntu ... most of them
> just using archive.ubuntu.com or even the isos as a base

If Ubuntu is happy to let such distros go, and the distros are happy
for me to use them trademarks & all, then that seemed an easier route
to me.

But you are saying that this debranding is much easier than I thought,
and that several have done it - so, are there any guidelines or
anything out there?

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