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Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2022 16:18:46 +0000
From: Kevin Daudt <kdaudt@alpinelinux.org>
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Subject: Re: Does alpine violate rust's trademark?
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On Mon, Jul 18, 2022 at 06:46:37PM +0200, Wolf wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I would like to inquire about the `community/rust' package. After
> reading this [0] fun debate bug thread over at debian bug tracker, I've
> started to wonder what is the state of this in alpine.
> 
> It looks like at least some of the patches in community/rust do not fall
> under any of these categories (from [1]):
> 
>  - porting the software to a different architecture
>  - fixing local paths
>  - adding patches that have been released upstream
>  - adding patches that have been reported upstream, provided that the
>    patch is removed if it is not accepted upstream
> 
> That seems to mean that distributing this package under the name `rust'
> is not really legal.
> 
> Was any evaluation of if the trademark is being broken done? Do we want
> to rename `rust' to `totally-not-rust' or something? Do we want to do
> nothing and pretend the problem does not exist?
> 
> IANAL, so I've decided to ask here assuming someone else knows more
> about this.
> 
> W.
> 
> 0: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1013920
> 1: https://foundation.rust-lang.org/policies/logo-policy-and-media-guide/
> 
> -- 
> There are only two hard things in Computer Science:
> cache invalidation, naming things and off-by-one errors.

From the logo-policy-and-media-guide[1]:

> Please do not approach users of the trademarks with a complaint. That
> should be left to the Rust Foundation and its representatives. Thanks!

So these kinds of questions go against the wishes fo the Rust
foundation.