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Re:Towards a Rust Foundation by rectang on Friday January 10, 2020 @12:11PM (#22012513)
Projects can be set up so that one entity (possibly a company which is a Linux Foundation Member) exerts dominant influence. This is one reason that many companies are comfortable bringing projects to the LF — and that's arguably better on balance for the Open Source ecosystem than them keeping those projects in-house and their governance murky.

Rust, though, is already at Mozilla, whose influence seems to be benign.

I'm curious, which Mozilla entity holds the trademark: is it the 501(c)(3) Mozilla Foundation, or is it their for-profit subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation?

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Re:Towards a Rust Foundation by steveklabnik on Friday January 10, 2020 @12:14PM (#22012545)
> I'm curious, which Mozilla entity holds the trademark: is it the 501(c)(3) Mozilla Foundation, or is it their for-profit subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation?

I never thought about this, but TESS says it's Moco, which is what I'd expect.

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Re:Towards a Rust Foundation by rectang on Friday January 10, 2020 @12:41PM (#22012848)
I wonder if it's reasonable to donate that trademark to the 501(c)(3) Mozilla Foundation and to then formalize a charter laying out Rust governance.

For what it's worth I would have greater confidence in such an arrangement than I would in a 501(c)(6) Business League version of a Rust Foundation, which would in my view undermine independence.

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Re:Towards a Rust Foundation by steveklabnik on Friday January 10, 2020 @12:44PM (#22012881)
I don't think that helps accomplish one of the main goals of this effort, which is to demonstrate independence.
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