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Following Layoffs, Mozilla and Core Rust Developers Are Forming a Rust Foundation

posted by martyb on Wednesday August 19 2020, @12:22PM   
from the iron+oxygen dept.

takyon writes:

Rust Core Team + Mozilla To Create A Rust Foundation

Rust's core team and Mozilla are announcing plans to create a Rust foundation with the hopes of establishing this legal entity by year's end. The trademarks and related assets of Rust, Cargo, and Crates.io will belong to this foundation. Work is well underway on establishing this foundation with originally coming to the idea of possibly creating an independent Rust foundation last year, now pushed along by the recent Mozilla layoffs and the global pandemic. This should allow the Rust community more safety rather than being reliant upon a sole organization (Mozilla) and help foster growth and open up new possibilities.

Lay(off)ing the foundation for Rust's future

Previously: Mozilla Lays Off 250, Including Entire Threat Management Team

Related: Linus Torvalds: Don't Hide Rust in Linux Kernel; Death to AVX-512

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Original Submission

• Trademark restructuring? (Score: 5, Informative) by requerdanos on Wednesday August 19 2020, @04:18PM

  by requerdanos (5997) on Wednesday August 19 2020, @04:18PM (#1038872) Journal

  The trademarks and related assets of Rust, Cargo, and Crates.io will belong to this foundation.

  I wonder whether there will be any effort to address iceweasel-type freedom concerns with the rust(tm) trademarks.

  As Hyperbola [hyperbola.info] puts it:

  Rust and also Cargo (the Rust package manager) violate the freedom to redistribute without “explicit” approval. Their trademark license imposes requirements for the distribution of modified versions that make it inconvenient to exercise freedom 3.

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