Rust Foundation restricts usage of word “Rust” and logos

I feel like a fool for learning - let alone advocating - Rust to this point. The "great resign" is merely one year ago and the foundation has learned nothing. It is reasonable for any organization to protect against misrepresentation, but this proposal is overshooting so far that I could not even take it serious at first. Some of my favorites:

  - They try to trademark the words "Rust" and "Cargo" which are common words in the English language
  - You can not use "rust" in your domain name(?!), course name, video name, whatever, unless approved by the foundation
  - Trying to impose a "Rust Foundation" approved CoC to all on- and off-line communities or events revolving around the language (the language, not foundation!)
  - All off-line events about Rust need to ban their participants from carrying firearms
  - Overrule any existing fair-use rights by prohibiting any modification (other than scaling) to the logo
  - You need to constantly state that you are not affiliated or endorsed by the Rust Foundation when talking about the language (e.g. you want to write a tutorial, book or even answer on Stack Overflow?)

Needless to say that most, if not all, of those rules will be impossible to enforce. The foundation can try by spending all their funds and energy to fight lawsuits because some kid in India used "Rust" in their domain name or a bunch of rednecks hold a conference with guns in their pockets, but that time and energy could be better used elsewhere.

This proposal shows perfectly everything that is wrong with Rust: The "Foundation" and language need to be separated completely. This board consists of some self-proclaimed experts with questionable backgrounds who are hindering adaption and alienate the community by living out yet another ideology-driven power trip. At this point it does not matter if the proposal gets passed, which I doubt, or undergoes a complete rewrite as the damage is already done and the foundation has shown their ugly face to the community. This is their third strike in a row and I doubt that the important steps towards industry adoption (like integration to the Linux kernel) will be unaffected - all thrown out of the window because someone on this board could not endure the idea of people hosting independent events about the language.

Some of the rules are just virtue signaling.

"comply with local health regulations". Do you know who is responsible for making sure that we comply with local health regulations? Local health authorities. Just like you don't need to say "killing people is not allowed at our events", you also don't need to say that we need to follow local regulations. If an event doesn't follow local health regulations, call local health authorities, they can enforce it much better than The Foundation.

Carrying firearms? Even though I can't find a legit reason for bringing firearms to the event, it's still not the responsibility of foundation 5 thousand miles away from me to decide this, let my state / country, and event host decide what is allowed.

Code of conducts are also just a waste of time. If someone wants to be an a-hole, good luck stopping them with "it's in the CoC that you must not say that". I don't need the CoC to notice bad behavior and the CoC gives you nothing useful for stopping real abuse / racism at events.

Yeah, right up to the point where they trademark "rs" since it's also widely associated with rust.

So why not choose a less common word like the prefix “official-“

Then only crates with that are sponsored, rather than taking the literal name of the language that people already use?

I have a slight feeling this isn't really "Free as in Freedom" anymore, Rust.