Technically no. In a court description or in a press article, both addressed to people who are not technical, the name of the VCS is important.

Consider the extreme case where the VCS was called "theft-assistance" for example.

How does "He copied the code from a theft-assistance repository" would sound to a jury that doesn't know what a VCS is and that theft-assistance is just a name?

If it was something generic and inoffensive, like Git, it would be OK, but "subversion" has a ...subversive undertone.