From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22912 invoked by alias); 8 Dec 2003 23:31:59 -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 22905 invoked from network); 8 Dec 2003 23:31:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nile.gnat.com) (205.232.38.5) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 8 Dec 2003 23:31:58 -0000 Received: from gnat.com (hoosic.gnat.com [205.232.38.102]) by nile.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 947D8F2DCB; Mon, 8 Dec 2003 18:31:58 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3FD509C3.3030708@gnat.com> Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 23:44:00 -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: Andrew Haley Cc: Richard Kenner , pkoning@equallogic.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: Name of front-end References: <10312081632.AA11626@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> <3FD4AD1A.3070408@gnat.com> <16340.46498.241928.977386@cuddles.cambridge.redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <16340.46498.241928.977386@cuddles.cambridge.redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-12/txt/msg00553.txt.bz2 Andrew Haley wrote: > Robert Dewar writes: > > > 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! > > Trademark law is complex, I strongly advise against anyone giving > amateur legal opinions in this area :-) Umm, I don't think you need a lawyer to tell you that it a name is not trademarked, then using it will not be a trademark infringement :-)