On 2/11/25 12:29 PM, Robin Candau wrote:
Those are legit concerns that still stand today. Fortunately, since recent WSL versions, there are alternative methods to distribute WSL images outside from the Microsoft Store that are not subject to those trademark problems / concerns.
For the record, I'm in favor of distributing WSL images on the Microsoft Store, as it would help make Arch Linux and our packages more accessible to more humans (from how I understand it). I'm not really concerned about the trademark, I understand the corporate legalese and why this is necessary, but it's not like we're transferring over the archlinux.org domain, or them naming their next operating system release Arch Linux 12. Does anybody know how Ubuntu dealt with this? cheers, kpcyrd