commented:
If now Tailscale creates a fork of GotaTun I am gonna scream. Could
they please just maintain one version together.
Also I am looking forward to Tailscale adopting WireGuard written in
Rust :)

  commented:
A funny thing about WireGuard is its author’s legendary insistence
that everyone add a “®” and a trademark sentence mentioning his
personal full name on any page that has the word WireGuard, to the
point of chasing down random personal blog posts and sending legal
threats to personal open source projects for not doing so.
It establishes a crummy precedent in open source — imagine if Linus
behaved the same way with Linux, and you had to have Linux® and “Linux
is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds” at the bottom of every
single page that ever used the word, lest an irate Linus Torvalds hunt
you down. Luckily, Linus did the non-narcissistic thing of just
setting up a foundation for the trademark and forgetting about it
except in cases of necessity.

  commented:
This is how trademark enforcement works. There is nothing weird about
this at all.

  commented:
IANAL, but from my knowledge, such active protection of trademark as
mentioned there is required only by USA legislation. In EU you need to
fight only factual infringement, not just someone talking about a
product.

  commented:
My understanding is that the referenced CloudFlare BoringTun is
already a wireguard implementation in Rust?  So is this GotaTun a
fork/extension of that project?

  commented:
If you read just a little bit further in the linked article that
should be clear. ;-)

  commented:
I guess I didn't comprehend well enough pre-coffee.  I'll give it
another read.

  commented:
Why not contribute it? It seems like a neat enhancement.

  commented:

We have integrated privacy enhancing features like DAITA &
Multihop, added first-class support for Android and used Rust to
achieve great performance by using safe multi-threading and zero-copy
memory strategies.


  commented:

A third-party security audit will take place early next year

I don't exactly love that the Android rollout happened before that. I
don't use mullvad so it doesn't affect me but this leaves a big enough
window for bad actors to find and abuse security issues that will
inevitably be there
.