Re: [Gaim-cabal] Names

[Luke S. <lsc...@us...>]

On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 06:56:28PM -0700, Sean Egan wrote:
> 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 like pidgin, I could accept cohort, but I like it much less.  I'm
not particular about what domain we go with for it.

<snip> 

> 
> 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.

In this paragraph, "computer code" could be interpreted as "object
code" or as "source code," both need to be covered.

luke


> 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?