rust non-free-compatible trademark

[Alexandre Oliva]

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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