Bone Baboon writes: > This is an article from Hyperbola about the Rust trademark. It claims > that Rust has a freedom issue. > <https://wiki.hyperbola.info/doku.php?id=en:main:rusts_freedom_flaws> > > I searched for this in the Guix bug and devel mailing list archive but > did not see it. > > I would like to know how others interpret this claim of Rust having a > freedom issue. > > # Linux-libre > > If Rust does have a freedom issue then there is potential that it could > have an impact on Linux-libre. Recently there was a RFC for adding > support for Rust to the Linux kernel > <https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/4/14/1023>. Linus Torvalds's response is > here <https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/4/14/1099>. > > # Responses on Freenode > > I asked about Hyperbola's claim of a Rust freedom issue on > ##r...@ire.freenode.net and these were some of the responses I > received. However it appears that the core of Hyperbola's claim > remains unaddressed by these responses. > > "<SpaceManiac> the trademarks are now owned by the Rust Foundation > rather than Mozilla, but the Rust Media Guide has not been updated to > reflect this" > > "<lifeless> bone-baboon: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/53287 > is closed by https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/59748"; > > "<lifeless> bone-baboon: whether you consider is a freedom issue or not > is a matter of viewpoint - debian doesn't seem to care at this point, > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?dist=unstable;package=cargo > shows no bugs open related to trademarks"
I asked about this on #hyperbola@Freenode. I was told that it is still an issue and this link was shared: <https://github.com/rust-lang/foundation-faq-2020/issues/35>.
