Subj : Re: Copyrights?
To   : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : Martin Honnen
Date : Thu Aug 26 2004 04:36 pm



Laurens Holst wrote:

> We need to know where the copyright of Javascript lies, for some 
> documentation we wrote.
> 
> Can anyone here tell me? It is quite hard to find, with contradicting 
> results :). Some say it's Netscape, some say Sun... My guess is that 
> Javascript is (c) Netscape and JScript is (c) Microsoft, but we're using 
> script for both browsers... Who holds the copyright on ECMAScript then? 
> And which of the copyright notices should we use? All throughout the 
> document we say Javascript, not ECMAScript, it probably makes a 
> difference...

I think "JavaScript" is a trademark of Sun:
   http://www.sun.com/suntrademarks/#J

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	Martin Honnen
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