On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 01:58:41PM +0100, lkcl wrote: > everything is "fine" as long as: > > 1) the Mozilla Foundation acts reasonably and non-discriminatorily > (FRAND applies to Trademarks just as it applies to patent Licensing) > 2) the Mozilla Foundation does not appreciate quite how much power it > actually has under Trademark Law. > > given that this is between Free Software Groups i would expect the > discussion to remain civil and reasonable, and for them to drop or > modify the unachievable nonfree constraint, but please for goodness > sake do not let the civility of the interaction lull you into a sense > of false safety. > > under the Trademark as they have defined it, the Mozilla Foundation > is perfectly permitted to issue Debian a Legal Notice to Cease and > Desist distribution of the Unlawfully patched rustc binaries. > > l.
Hi Luke, Hi all others, Let's continue thinking several steps ahead. * Allow all room to move forward * Accept there is NO "request pending" documentation, trust https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1013920#10 that it is "work in progress" * Ask over six weeks how much you should worry about this * Meanwhile team-up with other Linux distributions * Meanwhile create a concept letter you want to have, like We, Mozilla Foundation grant these Linux distributions * foo * bar * debian * baz to distribute our Rust and our Cargo that we still can recognice as our Rust and as our Cargo. * Continue enjoying Rust and Cargo Regards Geert Stappers P.S. a Trade Mark is a request for respect, not a demand for respect. And yes, respect is something like trust, it has to be earnt. -- Silence is hard to parse
