Gaim becomes Pidgin

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Gaim becomes Pidgin
Posted by absorbation on Wed 11 Apr 2007 (21:45 GMT)
Gaim, a multi platform IM client has been in the news a lot this week, under going a somewhat a forced name change. The client is extremely popular, mainly because it talks to various other IM clients without lacking useful and fun features. The client was originally designed as an alternative for AOL's Instant Messenger (AIM).

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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