Re: [Gaim-cabal] Names

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

Just FYI, the lawyers did a more thorough check on Pidgin. They found this:
A self-learning cross lingual interface based at the University of
Twente in the Netherlands, but some of the links are broken and the site
hasn't been updated since 2003:
http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/Projects/pidgin.html

Fotopages, a photo sharing site, appears to be run by a company called
Pidgin Technologies Ltd, though they seem to be focusing on the
Fotopages name.  I don't see any social networking or chat components here.
http://pidgintech.fotopages.com/

Pidgin Productions, "Producers Integrated Development Group, Initiatives
and Network", is a non-profit in England focused on promoting cultural
diversity in moving image media
http://www.pidgin.org.uk/

Pidgen ML is a core subset of the Objective Caml programing language:
http://www.inria.fr/rapportsactivite/RA2005/signes/uid40.html

The Pidgen Compiler is a retired tool of Cornell University's Computer
Science Department's Intelligent Software Systems:
http://iss.cs.cornell.edu/p.aspx

None of these projects are considered a bar from us using the name Pidgin.

-s.