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The intersection of free software and trademark law has not always been
smooth. Free-software licenses have little to say about trademarks but,
sometimes, trademark licenses can appear to take away some of the freedoms
that free-software licenses grant. The Firefox browser has often been the focal point for trademark-related
controversy; happily, those problems appear to be in the past now. Instead,
the increasing popularity of the Rust
language is drawing attention to its trademark policies.