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en:philosophy:rust_trademark [2024/03/20 00:22]
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throgh [What are the issues?]
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 In short, the **Rust Foundation won't be happy with us applying patches and modifications** to their trademarked language **without "explicit approval", so it is a freedom issue**. We should not have to ask for modifications. For further references, [[https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/93157|there is a report in Rust about those trademark restrictions]] and [[https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/53287#issuecomment-414472372|Niko's response (one of the members of the Rust Legal Team)]]. In short, the **Rust Foundation won't be happy with us applying patches and modifications** to their trademarked language **without "explicit approval", so it is a freedom issue**. We should not have to ask for modifications. For further references, [[https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/93157|there is a report in Rust about those trademark restrictions]] and [[https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/53287#issuecomment-414472372|Niko's response (one of the members of the Rust Legal Team)]].
  
-Furthermore Rust has a very strict point when it comes to modified versions distributed and shared. To quote their points from their own [[https://foundation.rust-lang.org/policies/logo-policy-and-media-guide/#uses-that-do-not-require-explicit-approval|media guide]]: +A free and libre oriented system cannot provide a package-manager besides its own to preserve the autonomy of the free system itself. What the users are doing is their own decision, but they should be always able to assure a consistent free and libre oriented system outside their own decisions that they are responsible for. If we would remove **Cargo**, we would need to ask for permission when we call the package **Rust**. And if we remove the package-manager (**Cargo**) we also create a not useful result as **Rust** depends on it fully when building. If we add needed dependencies for software based on **Rust**, we enlarge the number of our packages provided.
- +
-<code> +
-(...) +
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-Distributing a modified version of the Rust programming language, compiler, or the Cargo package  +
-manager, provided that the modifications are limited to: +
- +
-  * code adjustments for the purpose of porting to a different platform, architecture, or system, or  +
-integrating the software with the packaging system of that platform; or +
-  * fixing local paths; or +
-  * adding patches that have been made available upstream and accepted, or submitted upstream  +
-and not yet rejected (but you must remove either the patch or the trademark once the patch has been been rejected). +
- +
-(...) +
-</code>+
  
 To summarize the issues: To summarize the issues:
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   * demands to ask for allowing modifications   * demands to ask for allowing modifications
   * complex structures   * complex structures
-  * mandatory package-manager for build+  * mandatory package-manager for building
   * packages downloaded at build-time can be non-free, so keeping that outside makes the whole build-system and infrastructure even more complex   * packages downloaded at build-time can be non-free, so keeping that outside makes the whole build-system and infrastructure even more complex
  
-The listing above only shows the major points, furthermore the Rust-Foundation is overreacting in our perspective with their trademarked language and demands handlings violating in fact free, libre software as it is based most on ethics and moral decisions as important, not what possible legal issues could be there.+The listing above only shows the major points, furthermore the Rust-Foundation is overreacting in our perspective with their trademarked language and demands handlings violating in fact free, libre software as it is based most on ethics and moral decisions as important, not what possible legal issues could be there. So to conclude:  We cannot include **Rust** as it is not compliant with the elementary direction Hyperbola is oriented on.
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