Subj : Re: Copyrights?
To   : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : Shanti Rao
Date : Thu Aug 26 2004 03:41 pm

http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f=tess

Sun owns the trademark to JavaScript for use as a computer language and on 
T-shirts.

A registration for ECMAscript does not appear in the USPTO database.

> Laurens Holst wrote:
> 
>> Hi there,
>>
>> We need to know where the copyright of Javascript lies, for some 
>> documentation we wrote.
> 
> 
> 
> Do you mean trademark, or copyright?
> 
> 
>> 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...
> 
> 
> 
> Now it sounds like you mean trademark.
> 
> 
>> Who holds the copyright on ECMAScript then?
> 
> 
> 
> ECMA, I think.  Have a look at http://www.ecma-international.org/, 
> perhaps you can find a trademark policy.  I can't, at a glance.
> 
> 
>> And which of the copyright notices should we use? All throughout the 
>> document we say Javascript, not ECMAScript, it probably makes a 
>> difference...
> 
> 
> 
> Sun has allowed Netscape and, since 1998, Mozilla to use JavaScript 
> freely, but I believe it's still trademarked by Sun.  But let me know 
> whether you *do* mean trademark, and I'll get a better answer.
> 
> /be
>

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