From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15343 invoked by alias); 8 Dec 2003 17:10:57 -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 15336 invoked from network); 8 Dec 2003 17:10:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO piper.synopsys.com) (198.182.56.5) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 8 Dec 2003 17:10:56 -0000 Received: (from jbuck@localhost) by piper.synopsys.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id hB8HACG20943; Mon, 8 Dec 2003 09:10:12 -0800 Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 17:11:00 -0000 From: Joe Buck To: Gerald Pfeifer Cc: Henrik Sorensen , Andreas Jaeger , gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: Name of front-end Message-ID: <20031208091011.B20751@synopsys.com> References: <200312051806.53790.henrik.sorensen@balcab.ch> <200312061530.42344.henrik.sorensen@balcab.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from gerald@pfeifer.com on Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 06:42:26PM +0100 X-SW-Source: 2003-12/txt/msg00529.txt.bz2 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.