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Re: FW: trademark filings for GCC?
- From: Richard Stallman <rms at gnu dot org>
- To: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm at polyomino dot org dot uk>
- Cc: carl at oppedahl dot com, gcc at gnu dot org
- Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 01:32:24 -0400
- Subject: Re: FW: trademark filings for GCC?
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- Reply-to: rms at gnu dot org
What about __GNUC__ (the preprocessor define)? It has been reported
<http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2003-06/msg01822.html> that Intel's nonfree
compiler defines it to masquerade as GCC. I don't know whether trademark
protection is in this case either legally possible or philosophically
desirable,
It is clearly wrong, and we will not try to restrict such things.
I think it is also probably not supported by trademark law.
(It isn't surprising that Intel would try to stretch the law.)