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> There is a danger in the Rust compiler. Its copyright license is > free, but the license for the trademarks "Rust" and "Cargo" have a > requirement which is not clear. > > > Please, if there are practical and/or philosophical problems > > > with or around Rust and its toolchain, concerning software’s > > > freedom and liberty, GNU and FSF better to talk about them. > I tried. I wrote to the Rust fondation asking for clarification > of what the rule would concretely require, and did not get a reply. > I would still like to talk with them about this. If they state > a concretely clear rule, maybe the problem will be gone. Thank you so much for explaining the problem. Can Rust programming language be called a ‘free/libre software’, if it’s not possible to implement a compiler or a package manager for it, and call it a ‘Rust’ compiler or a ‘Rust’ package manager without the explicit permission of the Rust authorities, due to trademark restrictions. -- English is not my native/mother language. I can read and understand English well, but I have problems expressing my thoughts in it. Please, bear with me. Sincerely, Pyromania. PGP fingerprint = 2B24 291E 0637 4D2E 0D14 9EFC D7B3 10D4 5C9D 5892 () ASCII ribbon campaign - against HTML e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments --- via emacs-tangents mailing list (https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-tangents)
