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Re: Name of front-end
- From: Robert Dewar <dewar at gnat dot com>
- To: Richard Kenner <kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu>
- Cc: pkoning at equallogic dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 11:55:54 -0500
- Subject: Re: Name of front-end
- References: <10312081632.AA11626@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu>
Richard Kenner wrote:
FWIW, some IBM 360 PL/1 manuals I just looked at do not mark or claim
"PL/1" as trademark.
But certainly some did. And contemporary lore was that they trademarked PL/2,
PL/3, etc ...
Hmm, Richard, what is your authority/reference for this? I can find no
evidence that PL/I was trademarked. I very much doubt that PL/1 is
trademarked since IBM always uses PL/I (letter I), not PL/1 (digit 1) in
their product literature
As for PL/2 etc, that's surely bogus, since such names were never used
in commerce (a requirement for trademarking something!)
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!