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| + | The conversation about the Rust Trademark policy issue has been |
| − | * Rust Foundation
| + | happening on several mailing lists and in different IRC channels. I |
| − | * Free Software
| + | decided to write a new summary that bringing it all together, adds new |
| − | * Distribution Requirements
| + | information and cleans it up. |
| − | * Current Distribution
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| | + | The summary is located at |
| | + | <https://bonebaboon.tilde.site/rust-trademark-policy-issue/>. |
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| − | 1) Rust Foundation
| + | The Git repository for the summary that can be cloned is at |
| | + | <https://bonebaboon.tilde.site/git/rust-trademark-policy-issue.git>. |
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| − | This:
| + | There is also a website for browsing the source code at |
| − | | + | <https://bonebaboon.tilde.site/git/rust-trademark-policy-issue/>. |
| − | The trademark section of
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| − | <https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/master/README.md>
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| − | ```
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| − | The Rust programming language is an open source, community project
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| − | governed by a core team. It is also sponsored by the Mozilla Foundation
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| − | (“Mozilla”), which owns and protects the Rust and Cargo trademarks and
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| − | logos (the “Rust Trademarks”).
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| − | If you want to use these names or brands, please read the media guide.
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| − | ```
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| − | and this:
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| − | <https://www.rust-lang.org/policies/media-guide> says "This document is
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| − | not an official statement of Mozilla trademark policy, but serves to
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| − | clarify Mozilla’s trademark policy as it relates to Rust.".
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| − | appear to be in need of updating because of this:
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| − | <https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-welcomes-the-rust-foundation/>
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| − | says "The Rust Foundation will be the home of the popular Rust
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| − | programming language that began within Mozilla.".
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| − | and this:
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| − | <https://foundation.rust-lang.org/posts/2021-02-08-hello-world/> says
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| − | "Mozilla, the original home of the Rust project, has transferred all
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| − | trademark ... to the Rust Foundation.".
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| − | 2) Free Software
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| − | The "Rules about packaging and distribution details" section of
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| − | <https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html> says:
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| − | ```
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| − | Rules about how to package a modified version are acceptable, if they
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| − | don't substantively limit your freedom to release modified versions,
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| − | or your freedom to make and use modified versions privately. Thus, it
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| − | is acceptable for the license to require that you change the name of
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| − | the modified version, remove a logo, or identify your modifications
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| − | as yours. As long as these requirements are not so burdensome that
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| − | they effectively hamper you from releasing your changes, they are
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| − | acceptable; you're already making other changes to the program, so
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| − | you won't have trouble making a few more.
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| − | ```
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| − | Given the "Rules about packaging and distribution details" section it
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| − | appears that this:
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| − | <https://www.rust-lang.org/policies/media-guide> section "Uses that | |
| − | require explicit approval" says
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| − | "Distributing a modified version of the Rust programming language or
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| − | the Cargo package manager and calling it Rust or Cargo requires
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| − | explicit, written permission from the Rust core team.". This appears
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| − | to interfere with "The freedom to distribute copies of your modified
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| − | versions to others (freedom 3)."
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| − | and this:
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| − | Niko said in
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| − | <https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/53287#issuecomment-414472372>
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| − | "You are correct that we intended the trademark to apply when
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| − | distributing a package or other binary called "Rust" -- and in
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| − | particular that if modifications are made, then we would expect a
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| − | trademark request"
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| − | would not prevent Rust from being free software.
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| − | 3) Distribution Requirements
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| − | The trademark policy does appear to require one of two things
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| − | for the distribution of Rust and Cargo with and without modifications:
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| − | * Permission from the Rust Foundation
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| − | * Renaming so than the Rust Foundation's trademarks are not used
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| − | 4) Current Distribution
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| − | This is a broad sample of operating systems that are not renaming Rust
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| − | when they redistribute copies or modified versions as the Rust trademark
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| − | policy appears to require:
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| − | * Arch
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| − | ** <https://repology.org/projects/?search=rust&inrepo=arch>
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| − | * Debian
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| − | ** <https://repology.org/projects/?search=rust&inrepo=debian_stable>
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| − | * Fedora
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| − | ** <https://repology.org/projects/?search=rust&inrepo=fedora_34>
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| − | * Gentoo
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| − | ** <https://repology.org/projects/?search=rust&inrepo=gentoo>
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| − | * Guix
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| − | ** <https://repology.org/projects/?search=rust&inrepo=gnuguix>
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| − | * OpenBSD
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| − | ** <https://repology.org/projects/?search=rust&inrepo=openbsd>
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| − | * Parabola
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| − | ** <https://repology.org/projects/?search=rust&inrepo=parabola>
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| − | * Ubuntu
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| − | ** <https://repology.org/projects/?search=rust&inrepo=ubuntu_21_04>
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| − | * Void
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| − | ** <https://repology.org/projects/?search=rust&inrepo=void_x86_64>
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| − | Guix and Void are examples of distributing modified versions of Rust
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| − | without changing it's name.
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| − | <https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages/rust.scm>
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| − | <https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/tree/master/srcpkgs/rust/patches>
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| − | Maybe these operating system have received permission from the Mozilla
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| − | or Rust foundation to distribute copies or modified versions of Rust.
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| − | People packaging Rust for these operating systems (many are volunteers)
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| − | would likely check the Rust source code repository to see what licenses
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| − | apply and check if those licenses are free libre open source licenses
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| − | using resources from the Free Software Foundation or the Open Source
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| − | Initiative. It seems unlikely that they would check the Rust media
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| − | guide for further restriction. Even if they did check the Rust media
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| − | guide it may not be clear what further restriction the trademark policy
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