Are you sure this is sufficient to stay clear of legal trouble? You also say that "[...] a strict reading would require you to remove every instance of the word "ubuntu" from the packages". There are plenty of packages in the Debian archive that contain the string "ubuntu" in changelogs (version strings in particular, but also maintainer e-mail addresses), documentation, and elsewhere. Many of these packages are required to run even a fairly minimal Debian system. Heck, even the linux package changelog has "ubuntu" all over it in Jessie.
Am I missing something or, by that "strict reading" is Debian also in violation of Ubuntu's (Canonical's) policies here?
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Date: 2015-07-21 11:34 am (UTC)Are you sure this is sufficient to stay clear of legal trouble? You also say that "[...] a strict reading would require you to remove every instance of the word "ubuntu" from the packages". There are plenty of packages in the Debian archive that contain the string "ubuntu" in changelogs (version strings in particular, but also maintainer e-mail addresses), documentation, and elsewhere. Many of these packages are required to run even a fairly minimal Debian system. Heck, even the linux package changelog has "ubuntu" all over it in Jessie.
Am I missing something or, by that "strict reading" is Debian also in violation of Ubuntu's (Canonical's) policies here?