Actually, the claim made by someone[1] in one of the replies on LWN was that Mint ended up getting a license from Canonical, so if you wanted to spin off from L

Actually, the claim made by someone[1] in one of the replies on LWN was that Mint ended up getting a license from Canonical, so if you wanted to spin off from Linux Mint, you too would require a license from Canonical or having to dive in and rip out any Ubuntu trademarks. [1] - https://lwn.net/Articles/665350/ https://lwn.net/Articles/665350/