rust non-free-compatible trademark

[Arthur Cohen]

Hi Florian,

On Mon, Jul 18, 2022, 20:33 Florian Weimer via Gcc <gcc@gcc.gnu.org> wrote:

> * lkcl via Gcc:
>
> > if the Rust Foundation were to add an extremely simple phrase
> >
> >    "to be able to use the word rust in a distributed compiler your
> >     modifications must 100% pass the test suite without modifying
> >     the test suite"
> >
> > then all the problems and pain goes away.
>
> No.  It would actually make matters worse for GCC in this case because
> the stated intent is to ship without a borrow checker (“There are no
> immediate plans for a borrow checker as this is not required to compile
> rust code”, <https://rust-gcc.github.io/>, retrieved 2022-07-18).


The website is not up to date and we do have to change that. We do have
plans for borrow-checking, which revolve around using and contributing to
the Polonius project.

There
> are of course tests for the borrow checker in the Rust test suite, and
> those that check for expected compiler errors will fail with GCC.
>
> Thanks,
> Florian


Thanks,

-- 
Arthur Cohen