From: kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner)
To: mark@klomp.org
Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org, luke.leighton@gmail.com
Subject: Re: rust non-free-compatible trademark
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2022 14:28:51 EDT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220717182851.D247E33CAC@vlsi1.gnat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220717174101.GA4487@gnu.wildebeest.org>
> I think you are misinterpreting when you need a trademark license for
> usage a word mark in an implementation of a compiler for a programming
> language. Note that gcc used to come with a full implementation of the
> Java programming language, compiler, runtime and core library
> implementation (for which I was the GNU maintainer). None of that
> required a trademark license because the usage of the word java was
> just for compatibility with the java programming language.
Was "Java" a trademark for both the language and compiler or just the
language? What about "rust"? That would seem to make a difference.
If the trademark is just for the language, then when you say you have
a "compiler for the XYZ language", you're refering to the trademarked
entity (the language) and you can always use a trademark to refer to
the trademark owner's product.
But if the trademark is also for the compiler and you have a different
compiler (even if it differs just by patches), you need the permission
of the trademark owner to call you compiler by the trademarked name.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-07-17 18:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-07-17 15:28 lkcl
2022-07-17 16:25 ` Richard Biener
2022-07-17 16:47 ` lkcl
2022-07-17 18:24 ` Richard Kenner
2022-07-17 18:57 ` Alexandre Oliva
2022-07-17 16:31 ` Mark Wielaard
2022-07-17 17:06 ` lkcl
2022-07-17 17:41 ` Mark Wielaard
2022-07-17 18:11 ` lkcl
2022-07-17 18:29 ` lkcl
2022-07-17 22:59 ` Mark Wielaard
2022-07-17 23:07 ` lkcl
2022-07-17 23:55 ` Richard Kenner
2022-07-17 18:28 ` Richard Kenner [this message]
2022-07-17 18:54 ` Alexandre Oliva
2022-07-18 7:09 ` David Brown
2022-07-18 8:07 ` lkcl
2022-07-18 8:50 ` Jonathan Wakely
2022-07-18 9:06 ` lkcl
2022-07-18 14:30 ` lkcl
2022-07-18 17:11 ` Richard Kenner
2022-07-18 17:12 ` Richard Kenner
2022-07-18 18:32 ` Florian Weimer
2022-07-18 18:43 ` Arthur Cohen
2022-07-19 9:43 ` Florian Weimer
2022-07-18 19:35 ` lkcl
2022-07-18 21:01 ` David Malcolm
2022-07-18 23:09 ` lkcl
2022-07-19 9:27 ` Gabriel Ravier
2022-07-19 10:26 ` lkcl
2022-07-19 10:55 ` Jonathan Wakely
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