{"id":773555,"date":"2026-05-04T22:50:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T22:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/773555\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T22:50:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T22:50:15","slug":"notepad-for-mac-release-is-disavowed-by-the-creator-of-the-original","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/773555\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Notepad++ for Mac&#8221; release is disavowed by the creator of the original"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As its name implies, the venerable <a href=\"https:\/\/notepad-plus-plus.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Notepad++ text editor<\/a> began as a more capable version of the classic Windows Notepad, with features such as line numbering and syntax highlighting. It was created in 2003 by Don Ho, who continues to be its primary author and maintainer, and it has been <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/notepad-plus-plus\/notepad-plus-plus\/blob\/master\/SUPPORTED_SYSTEM.md\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a Windows-exclusive app<\/a> throughout its existence (older Notepad++ versions support OSes as old as Windows 95; the current version officially supports everything going back to Windows 7).<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not a devoted user of the app, but I was aware of its history, which is why I was surprised to see news of a \u201cNotepad++ for Mac\u201d port <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260429083840\/https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2026\/04\/29\/notepad-plus-plus-editor-comes-to-mac\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">making the rounds last week<\/a>, as though it were a port of the original available from the Notepad++ website.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, this news surprised Ho as well, who <a href=\"https:\/\/notepad-plus-plus.org\/news\/npp-trademark-infringement\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">claims<\/a> that the Mac version and its author, <a href=\"https:\/\/aletik.me\/about\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andrey Letov<\/a>, are \u201cusing <a href=\"https:\/\/data.inpi.fr\/marques\/FR5133202#\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Notepad++ trademark<\/a> (the name) without permission.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is misleading, inappropriate, and frankly disrespectful to both the project and its users,\u201d Ho wrote. \u201cIt has already fooled people\u2014including tech media\u2014into believing this is an official release. To be crystal clear: Notepad++ has never released a macOS version. Anyone claiming otherwise is simply riding on the Notepad++ name.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An escalating back-and-forth<\/p>\n<p>Further communication between Ho and Letov can be found in a Notepad++ GitHub\u00a0thread, where Ho <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/notepad-plus-plus\/notepad-plus-plus\/issues\/17982#issuecomment-4347477621\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> he had been contacted by Letov before the Notepad++ for Mac app had launched, but that he hadn\u2019t had time to reply.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe problem is that using the official name Notepad++ and its logo gives the impression that your project is an official macOS version maintained or endorsed by the Notepad++ team, which is not the case,\u201d wrote Ho in an email to Letov that he reposted to GitHub. \u201cThis create [sic] confusion for users and exposes both you and the project to trademark issues.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As its name implies, the venerable Notepad++ text editor began as a more capable version of the classic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":773556,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-773555","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-technology","9":"tag-united-states","10":"tag-unitedstates","11":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116518756493264678","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=773555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/773556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}