[Dragora-users] Freedom concerns about Rust

[Ramon]

First of all, thank you for helping living beings by developing
Dragora :)

Second, I've noticed that the last release of Dragora includes the
Rust compiler, and there are some serious freedom concerns about it
that could render it non-libre software. I'm not that experienced with
matters concerning Rust though, so it may help to take the following
criticism with a grain of salt, though the following criticism comes
from the libre software community so it likely deserves attention.

Criticism from another libre-software-oriented ( :) ) system
(Hyperbola):

https://wiki.hyperbola.info/doku.php?id=en:philosophy:rust_trademark

There are also criticisms from GNU itself:

>From https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html
:

> Second, trademark requirements added on top of the code's copyright
> license can make a program nonfree. For instance, the Rust compiler
> may be nonfree, because the trademark conditions forbid selling
> copies or distributing modified versions, unless you fully remove
> all *uses of the trademark*. Just what that requires in practice is
> not clear.

From
https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html
:

> It is unfair for someone to ask you to remove a trademark from
> modified code if that trademark is scattered all throughout the
> original source. As long as the practical requirements are reasonable,
> however, free system distributions may include these programs, either
> with or without the trademarks.

Thank you!

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