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IO forked for technical reasons because Joyent wouldn’t entertain improvements. This rust drama is because some programming Youtubers/streamers don’t understand copyright and fair use, and of course want to bait rage clicks.


Is there a lawyer that agrees with that statement?

A reminder that the Debian project found it necessary to fork Firefox into Iceweasel for a very similar reason.


That is one of my top worries. If the, taking Debian as an example, has a sufficient amount of patches for their rust package that have not been upstream or upstream won't accept, does Debian now need to offer Rust under a different name because the Rust Foundation may not allow them to use the "Rust" branding?


That is a massive simplification of what has russled peoples jimmies. The proposal goes a bit too far with what is reasonably required


A trademark copyright document tries to have opinions about allowing guns at conventions, and you try to say the youtubers don't understand copyright?


They don’t want the Rust trademark to be associated with bullets. Is that a bad thing?




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