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Trademarks: A threat to free software's freedom? (NewsForge)Trademarks: A threat to free software's freedom? (NewsForge)Posted Nov 11, 2004 14:12 UTC (Thu) by jschrod (subscriber, #1646)In reply to: Trademarks: A threat to free software's freedom? (NewsForge) by forthy Parent article: Trademarks: A threat to free software's freedom? (NewsForge)
No, pdftex (and e-TeX and ML-TeX and ...) is especially the right way to handle the TeX trademark. If one changes TeX in a way that goes beyond environment adaptions (and those allowed places are marked explicitely in the source), then one has to rename TeX. Putting a prefix in front of "TeX" is a valid way to do that, that was both cleared with AMS (the trademark holder) and DEK (as author). I have personally been in discussions with DEK on that topic, this is no second hand information.
In fact, from the TeX Users' Groups point of view, naming modified systems by prefixing "TeX" is the best way to do it. It shows that one still is `connected' to the TeX community.
Joachim
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