From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9426 invoked by alias); 7 Dec 2003 08:49:00 -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 9419 invoked from network); 7 Dec 2003 08:48:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO smtp.hispeed.ch) (62.2.95.247) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 7 Dec 2003 08:48:59 -0000 Received: from 192.168.0.4 (dclient80-218-190-173.hispeed.ch [80.218.190.173]) by smtp.hispeed.ch (8.12.6/8.12.6/tornado-1.0) with ESMTP id hB78mtRP019463; Sun, 7 Dec 2003 09:48:58 +0100 From: Henrik Sorensen Reply-To: henrik.sorensen@balcab.ch To: Gerald Pfeifer Subject: Re: Name of front-end Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2003 09:15:00 -0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org References: <200312051806.53790.henrik.sorensen@balcab.ch> <200312061530.42344.henrik.sorensen@balcab.ch> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200312070948.10710.henrik.sorensen@balcab.ch> X-SW-Source: 2003-12/txt/msg00458.txt.bz2 On Saturday 06 December 2003 18:42, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > On Sat, 6 Dec 2003, Henrik Sorensen wrote: > > But does it matter for the name of the front-end, whether or not the > > copyright has been assigned ? > > 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. That's one of the reasons I ask. Anyway, I got enough answers that basically all say the same thing, that the copyrigths ought to be assigned to FSF. > > (I don't have the link handy, but I'm quite sure there is something on the > main GNU site at http://www.gnu.org.) http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain.html#SEC_Top > Gerald Thanks to all who replied Henrik