From: Robert Dewar <dewar@gnat.com>
To: Victor Maurice Faubert <vicmf@pop3.concentric.net>
Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Name of front-end
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2003 15:37:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FD5DD64.4010102@gnat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <p06002000bbfb82e8b9b8@[66.236.160.58]>
> I'm not a lawyer, but I'd point out that an ANSI standard for PL/I exists
> (ANSI X3.53-1976) and that non-IBM compilers for the language exist(ed),
> e.g., VAX. IBM contributed to the ANSI standard which, from a quick
> skimming of its introductory text, contains no information that the name
> is trademarked or is used with IBM's approval. That prior practice would
> indicate that PL/I is in the public domain as the name of programming
> language.
Exactly ...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-09 14:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2003-12-09 14:26 ` Victor Maurice Faubert
2003-12-09 15:37 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
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
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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
2003-12-06 20:45 ` Marc Espie
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