From: Alexandre Oliva <oliva@gnu.org>
To: Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org>
Cc: lkcl <luke.leighton@gmail.com>, GCC developers <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: rust non-free-compatible trademark
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2022 15:54:36 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ork08bwowj.fsf@lxoliva.fsfla.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220717174101.GA4487@gnu.wildebeest.org> (Mark Wielaard's message of "Sun, 17 Jul 2022 19:41:01 +0200")
On Jul 17, 2022, Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org> wrote:
> None of that required a trademark license because the usage of the
> word java was just for compatibility with the java programming
> language.
"just for compatibility" is an defense that applies to copyrights, but
AFAIK it doesn't apply to trademarks.
indeed, one can probably still find records suggesting that gcj got its
name, "GNU Compiler for Java", that way rather than the more natural
phrasing "Java Compiler", because the Java trademark was liberally
licensed for use in the form "for Java", whereas other uses were not.
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Free Software Activist GNU Toolchain Engineer
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-07-17 18:57 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
2022-07-17 18:54 ` Alexandre Oliva [this message]
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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