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From: Sean E. <sea...@gm...> - 2006-08-10 01:56:31
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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? |