From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20684 invoked by alias); 8 Dec 2003 16:56:56 -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 20660 invoked from network); 8 Dec 2003 16:56:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nile.gnat.com) (205.232.38.5) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 8 Dec 2003 16:56:55 -0000 Received: from gnat.com (hoosic.gnat.com [205.232.38.102]) by nile.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 759FFF313A; Mon, 8 Dec 2003 11:56:37 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3FD4AD1A.3070408@gnat.com> Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 17:03:00 -0000 From: Robert Dewar User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Richard Kenner Cc: pkoning@equallogic.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: Name of front-end References: <10312081632.AA11626@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> In-Reply-To: <10312081632.AA11626@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-12/txt/msg00526.txt.bz2 Richard Kenner wrote: > FWIW, some IBM 360 PL/1 manuals I just looked at do not mark or claim > "PL/1" as trademark. > > But certainly some did. And contemporary lore was that they trademarked PL/2, > PL/3, etc ... Hmm, Richard, what is your authority/reference for this? I can find no evidence that PL/I was trademarked. I very much doubt that PL/1 is trademarked since IBM always uses PL/I (letter I), not PL/1 (digit 1) in their product literature As for PL/2 etc, that's surely bogus, since such names were never used in commerce (a requirement for trademarking something!) If you google on PL/I you will find zillions of references from third parties with no hint of a trademark, so I think you can safetly talk about GNU PL/1 without worrying!