Monday, April 09, 2007

Gaim Renamed Pidgin

Gaim - the popular open source instant messaging program has been renamed Pidgin due to several legal issues with AOL and their AOL instant messenger (AIM).
After a long, and unfortunately secret debate (as we could not say why we were looking at a name change, we ended up just doing this ourselves), we settled on the name "Pidgin" for gaim itself, "libpurple" for libgaim (which, as of 2.0.0 beta6, exists), and "Finch" for gaim-text. Yes, the spelling of "Pidgin" is intentional, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pidgin. [Link]

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