[Gaim-cabal] Names

[Sean E. <sea...@gm...>]

I like Pidgin. It's unique, kinda catchy, has an actual, relevant
meaning (IM speakers butcher language), and---most importantly---a
purple pigeon (http://www.english-country-garden.com/a/i/birds/wood-pigeon-1.jpg)
would be a super fitting logo!

The lawyers have cleared Pidgin; it's ok to use. They've also cleared Cohort.

I say we settle on Pidgin, start registering domains, setting up
servers, etc. I can work on a Pidgin-renaming patch.

Does anyone hate Pidgin? Should we go with Cohort? Something else?
and I went through a few drafts of the AOL settlement, and I've given
them the OK to send it to AOL for comments. I've attached it here.

I'll address some of the more obvious questions; feel free to
reply-all if you need any other clarifications:
Paragraph 2: "contributed" and "distributed" have no special
definition, and the obvious definitions are the ones that apply. This
covers all of us; Adium is considered a "distributor, and so "powered
by libgaim" is protected.
Paragraph 3: This is what they give up. They say that, with the
exception of the trademark thing, they have no problem with anything
we're doing regarding their intellectual property rights.
Paragraph 4: We change our name within 30 days. We can keep the
webpage and redirect it and we can the term Gaim in our API; which
saves a headache. Plus, 10 years from now we'll all feel like OS X
developers. In an oversight, I left in "prior to the date of this
agreement" regarding the souce code and documentation, which would
disclude us from ever writing new code that references any of the
existing code. Whoops! We'll fix that in the next draft.
Paragraph 5: AOL can't sue us about trademarks. They can sue other
projects (e.g. Adium, for "Powered by libgaim"), but we'll publish
this settlement, so that paragraph two can be used to have any such
suit thrown out.

So. How about Pidgin?