Trademarks and the New Normal
Wednesday, May 6, 2026
I came across this article on The Register about a developer who ported Notepad++ to macOS — and promptly got called out for a trademark violation. It made me think about how common this kind of situation is going to become. I use Notepad++ at work as my scratch pad. It’s a licensed copy via our supply chain team, and it runs on GPLv2 — which means porting the codebase to macOS is entirely within the rules.