Re: Rust freedom issue claim

[Bone Baboon <bone.baboon@disroot.org>]

Bone Baboon writes:

> This is an article from Hyperbola about the Rust trademark. It claims
> that Rust has a freedom issue.
> <https://wiki.hyperbola.info/doku.php?id=en:main:rusts_freedom_flaws>
>
> I searched for this in the Guix bug and devel mailing list archive but
> did not see it.
>
> I would like to know how others interpret this claim of Rust having a
> freedom issue.
>
> # Linux-libre
>
> If Rust does have a freedom issue then there is potential that it could
> have an impact on Linux-libre.  Recently there was a RFC for adding
> support for Rust to the Linux kernel
> <https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/4/14/1023>.  Linus Torvalds's response is
> here <https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/4/14/1099>.
>
> # Responses on Freenode
>
> I asked about Hyperbola's claim of a Rust freedom issue on
> ##rust@ire.freenode.net and these were some of the responses I
> received.  However it appears that the core of Hyperbola's claim
> remains unaddressed by these responses.
>
> "<SpaceManiac> the trademarks are now owned by the Rust Foundation
> rather than Mozilla, but the Rust Media Guide has not been updated to
> reflect this"
>
> "<lifeless> bone-baboon: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/53287
> is closed by https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/59748"
>
> "<lifeless> bone-baboon: whether you consider is a freedom issue or not
> is a matter of viewpoint - debian doesn't seem to care at this point,
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?dist=unstable;package=cargo
> shows no bugs open related to trademarks"

I asked about this on #hyperbola@Freenode.  I was told that it is still
an issue and this link was shared:
<https://github.com/rust-lang/foundation-faq-2020/issues/35>.