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Basically AOL was complaining/ threatening to sue Gaim since the project started. The developers changed the name for the 2.0.0 release to avoid getting sued. Here’s a quote from the official website:
“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.
At long last, I am pleased to announce that we have a signed settlement and can release our new version. There is one catch however: we have had to change the project’s name.
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.”
More information on News – Pidgin or News – Gaim
I can’t wait till the final version of 2.0.0 is released. They say it’s going to be released this week. I don’t really like the new name, but I’m happy that gaim will continue to be developed. I was getting worried because the project hasn’t had a non-beta release in a very long time.
Wow.. what a joke. Am I assuming they had to change the name due to the fact it had “aim” in the title?
That would be my guess as well.
It’s not so bad, did you see what the word Pidgin means? It’s very appropriate.
Pidgen rhymes with smidgen. Or like “bridge” but with the a ‘p’ instead of ‘br’ and a ‘n’ on the end.
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