Rust Foundation Trademark Policy Issue

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2021-06-19 04:00:06

As the Rust Foundation’s trademark policy impacts Free Software and Open Source communities the neutral term Free Libre Open Source Software will be used.

Section 1.3 Purpose of the Rust Foundation Bylaws says that a part of the primary purpose of the Rust Foundation is to:

The Rust programming language is an open source, community project governed by a core team. It is also sponsored by the Mozilla Foundation (“Mozilla”), which owns and protects the Rust and Cargo trademarks and logos (the “Rust Trademarks”).

This document is not an official statement of Mozilla trademark policy, but serves to clarify Mozilla’s trademark policy as it relates to Rust.

Distributing a modified version of the Rust programming language or the Cargo package manager and calling it Rust or Cargo requires explicit, written permission from the Rust core team.

You are correct that we intended the trademark to apply when distributing a package or other binary called “Rust” – and in particular that if modifications are made, then we would expect a trademark request"

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