From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9330 invoked by alias); 7 Dec 2003 03:02:17 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 9298 invoked from network); 7 Dec 2003 03:02:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO disaster.jaj.com) (24.123.75.82) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 7 Dec 2003 03:02:16 -0000 Received: from disaster.jaj.com (localhost.localhost [127.0.0.1]) by disaster.jaj.com (8.12.10/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hB732GZ1014368; Sat, 6 Dec 2003 22:02:16 -0500 Received: (from phil@localhost) by disaster.jaj.com (8.12.10/8.12.9/Submit) id hB732GcC014367; Sat, 6 Dec 2003 22:02:16 -0500 Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2003 04:17:00 -0000 From: Phil Edwards To: Trevor Jenkins Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: [GCC] Re: Name of front-end Message-ID: <20031207030216.GA14323@disaster.jaj.com> References: <200312062038.hB6KcTd04395@quatramaran.ens.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i X-SW-Source: 2003-12/txt/msg00442.txt.bz2 On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 08:45:25PM +0000, Trevor Jenkins wrote: > On Sat, 6 Dec 2003, Marc Espie wrote: > > > >No necessarily, as far as I know. However, you must not call any software > > >"GNU Something" unless the FSF explicitly approved that, so you should do > > >that first. > > > > 'Must not', or 'should not' ? Is GNU registered as a trademark or something > > that prevents its use like this ? And then what should the status of > > gnuplot be ? > > What about Gnu Plot? Whilst open source it isn't (at least wasn't) a > formal GNU project. That was coincidence. They've answered this question many times. It's in their FAQ. They'd never heard of the GNU project when they came up with their name, and no, it's not an official GNU package, although it is open source. -- Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. - Brian W. Kernighan