body: I've recently read the [trademark policy by Ubuntu](https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/intellectual-property-policy).
  
  
  It mainly states that versions of the OS can be shipped by third-parties (e.g. a company) only under one of the following options:
  
  
  * a commercial agreement with Canonical, or
  * removing all references to Ubuntu and recompiling the packages from sources.
  
  
  Since Linux Mint installs and uses the very same binary packages from the Ubuntu repository, I wonder if they have such an agreement and if the Ubuntu's trademark policy also affects the Linux Mint distribution.
  
  
  
title: Linux Mint wrt Ubuntu's trademark policy