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The Rust Foundation was created for a few reasons, but among them was to accept control of the trademarks from Mozilla. “The Rust Project” is not a legal entity
by steveklabnik 4y ago
The Rust Foundation was created for a few reasons, but among them was to accept control of the trademarks from Mozilla. “The Rust Project” is not a legal entity, and that causes a lot of issues. The Foundation is, and can accept and use resources on behalf of the project.
Furthermore, the Project has significant representation on the Foundation board. The Foundation cannot just do whatever they want, against the project.
This policy was written by several Project members, in conjunction with the Foundation legal. So…