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> Like someone could start e.g. "Rust Labs" and sell a commercial version of Rust?

No, because the Rust trademark guidelines prohibit that (https://foundation.rust-lang.org/policies/logo-policy-and-me...)

In Redis Labs case, they acquired the Redis trademark from the original author, who they employed for a few years after the project was well established.



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