> From: Richard Stallman <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], > [email protected] > Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2026 22:52:38 -0500 > > The free software definition (https://gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html) > says it is acceptable for the license of a free program to require, if > you want to distribute a modified version, that you make certain > clearly specified changes to acknowledge you modified it. So if > Rust's Trademark Policy required modified versions to carry certain > clearly specified changes, it would not be a problem -- the Rust > compiler would still be free software, so we could morally > redistribute exact copies. > > But Rust's trademark requirement doesn't fit that, because the changes > required for modified versions by the Rust Trademark Policy are not > clearly specified. The policy says you have to interpret trademark > law to determine what is required! > > When I studied it, I _could not determine_ concretely what changes it > required in such a situation.
The current official Rust trademark policy is described here: https://rustfoundation.org/policy/rust-trademark-policy/ Would you mind reading it and telling whether the problems you saw back then are now solved? P.S. Note that we redirected this discussion to emacs-tangents. --- via emacs-tangents mailing list (https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-tangents)
