From: Joe Buck <jbuck@synopsys.com>
To: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com>
Cc: Henrik Sorensen <henrik.sorensen@balcab.ch>,
Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de>,
gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Name of front-end
Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 17:11:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031208091011.B20751@synopsys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.58.0312061840220.28341@acrux.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>; from gerald@pfeifer.com on Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 06:42:26PM +0100
On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 06:42:26PM +0100, 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.
Unfortunately, since the FSF allowed gnuplot to get away with it, their
ability to stop others is in question. Given this history, I would still
say that we should strongly REQUEST people not to use "GNU XYZ" without
talking to the FSF, as it will only confuse the public.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-08 17:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-06 9:57 Henrik Sorensen
2003-12-06 11:31 ` Andrew Haley
2003-12-06 14:24 ` Robert Dewar
2003-12-06 14:31 ` Henrik Sorensen
2003-12-08 15:28 ` Paul Koning
2003-12-06 13:47 ` Andreas Jaeger
2003-12-06 14:39 ` Henrik Sorensen
2003-12-06 16:41 ` Toon Moene
2003-12-06 18:23 ` Gerald Pfeifer
2003-12-07 9:15 ` Henrik Sorensen
2003-12-08 17:11 ` Joe Buck [this message]
2003-12-06 20:45 ` Marc Espie
2003-12-06 20:57 ` [GCC] " Trevor Jenkins
2003-12-07 4:17 ` Phil Edwards
2003-12-08 16:55 Richard Kenner
2003-12-08 17:03 ` Robert Dewar
2003-12-08 17:40 ` Andrew Haley
2003-12-08 23:44 ` Robert Dewar
2003-12-08 23:51 ` Laurent GUERBY
2003-12-09 1:32 ` Robert Dewar
2003-12-09 0:00 ` Daniel Berlin
2003-12-08 18:37 ` Dale Johannesen
[not found] ` <dalej@apple.com>
2003-12-08 19:15 ` Felix Lee
[not found] <1070947232.17483.ezmlm@gcc.gnu.org>
2003-12-09 14:26 ` Victor Maurice Faubert
2003-12-09 15:37 ` Robert Dewar
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