However the program has created great controversy recently with AOL, and it has delayed the release of any 2.0 beta. Therefore Gaim will be renamed to Pidgin on the next built release:
Getting a settlement with AOL has taken FAR FAR longer than we would have ever guessed. On legal advice, we have refrained from any non-beta release during this process as a show of good faith, and to keep AOL from giving up on it. Again, on legal advice, we have also kept this information closely controlled.
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.
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