Bone Baboon writes:
> * The "Uses that require explicit approval" section says "Distributing a
>   modified version of the Rust programming language or the Cargo package
>   manager and calling it Rust or Cargo requires explicit, written
>   permission from the Rust core team.".  This appears to interfere with
>   "The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others
>   (freedom 3).". 

This is more or less the same exact problem that caused Debian to rename
Firefox to Iceweasel.  Eventually, Debian convinced Mozilla to allow
Debian to use Firefox to refer to the modified versions that Debian
distributes.

  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=815006

Ideally, Debian would get a similar dispensation for Rust.

Cheers,
Walter

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