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Re: FW: trademark filings for GCC?
- From: Mike Stump <mrs at apple dot com>
- To: Carl Oppedahl <carl at oppedahl dot com>
- Cc: rms at gnu dot org, gcc at gnu dot org, moglen at columbia dot edu
- Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 11:55:37 -0700
- Subject: Re: FW: trademark filings for GCC?
On Thursday, July 10, 2003, at 09:47 PM, Carl Oppedahl wrote:
The US Trademark Office requires us to say when the mark was first
used in interstate commerce. In this context I expect we are talking
about the first time somebody FTPd the software using the name GCC.
From your timeline I am guessing it is more or less July 31, 1999.
From http://gcc.gnu.org/releases.html#timeline we see that gcc 1.0 was
May 23, 1987. That would be my recommendation for the date.