When it comes to the law, people working on software freedom are often most concerned about copyright and contract law (and the licenses we use under both), since these appear to most directly affect software freedom. How people can use, study, modify, and redistribute the software is naturally of paramount importance and these laws heavily affect those rights. Generally FOSS projects don't consider their brand as much as the software and community being built, and so other fields of law, like trademark, get less consideration.
I don’t think this will outright “kill” rust. Just as the article says, a similar situation existed in the past with mozilla. That’s how IceDove, IceWeasel and IceCat were born.
I think a similar situation could come up with Rust being rebranded as Crab or something. But I think it might not come to this, as Kernel devs will be influential in steering the direction the Rust foundation takes, in molding the trademark policy.
I don’t think this will outright “kill” rust. Just as the article says, a similar situation existed in the past with mozilla. That’s how IceDove, IceWeasel and IceCat were born.
I think a similar situation could come up with Rust being rebranded as Crab or something. But I think it might not come to this, as Kernel devs will be influential in steering the direction the Rust foundation takes, in molding the trademark policy.
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