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Unless it's GPL or similar, that's the claim. I'd hope that something like

    case *buntu)

would avoid using their trademark, if you can't just test for Debian derivatives.

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Perhaps you can do:

    voldemort=$(echo Ubxntx | sed 's/x/u/g')
    ...
    case $voldemort)

and not have an issue. Their trademark exists in computer memory, but not in code at that point.

I think if the compiler optimizes that out to not have string replacing (not valid for bash, but for other compiled languages), that makes it more interesting since if they're claiming the compiled unit is of issue, well, that unit now might have the string "Ubuntu" in it depending entirely on optimization.

From http://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/intellectual-...

>You will require Canonical’s permission to use: (i) any mark ending with the letters UBUNTU or BUNTU which is sufficiently similar to the Trademarks or any other confusingly similar mark, and (ii) any Trademark in a domain name or URL or for merchandising purposes

That sounds like it covers *buntu too, unfortunately

Good grief.

Sounds like "buntish" is the best option then, or something like that.

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