Use of Emacs name in a scientific publication

Use of Emacs name in a scientific publication

[Sam Griffiths-Jones]

Hello

I have a slightly odd request for info.  I may well be directing this
request to the wrong place, so please feel free to tell me where to
go!

I have written an Emacs major mode to help with a specific
biological/bioinformatics problem, naming editing multiple sequence
alignments of RNA molecules.  I want to write a short slightly wacky
"Application Note" for a scientific journal, such as Bioinformatics,
describing this tool.  The tool is tentatively called RALEE, for RNA
ALignment Editor in Emacs, and will be freely available to all under
the GPL.  Can anyone tell me if there are any problems with my using
the name "Emacs" in the title and text of a published scientific work
like this?  http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html will of
course be referenced in the text.

Thanks

Sam

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Sam Griffiths-Jones                              sgj@sanger.ac.uk
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RE: Use of Emacs name in a scientific publication

[Joe Corneli]

I've seen this done numerous times: I don't think there's any
constraint on using the name "Emacs"... as long as you don't use it
in vain.  If your work depends on Emacs, you should consider making
a contribution to the FSF to express your appreciation.