Hi, First, please use the same thread for your subject instead of opening a new thread (use reply). About 'branding' aMSN : You can distribute aMSN with your own skin, which would make it have your own look and your own logo.. about changing the name from 'aMSN' to something else, I don't know about that, read the GPL license and see for yourself if you have the right to do it.. aMSN is lincesed under the GPL license, but since I know nothing about licenses, I can't answer your question... My personal opinion is that aMSN is a messenger in itself, that was created by the work of a huge community of developers as well as users.. if you want to use it as a 'talkingabout messenger' and make it loose it's "aMSN" name, it's like you just removed everyone's contribution because the name "aMSN" holds that significance (at least to my eyes). Having a "talkingabout messenger" would make it look like your own products and almost noone reads the About boxes anyway... so my feeling is that it better keep its original name. Also, if your site becomes popular, it will advertise aMSN and we'd like to have that type of advertisement, if you distribute it under your own name, we won't get anything out of it.. I'm not asking for anything in exchance apart respect and appreciation for the hard work everyone has put into this software and I beleive you can't provide that by renaming our product. I don't know if I made myself clear or if I just rattled for nothing... but if you understood me, I'd just like to repeat that this is my personal opinion, it may or may not be shared by other members of this community and it might not be in compliance with the license...
Thanks, KaKaRoTo On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 08:16:34PM -0500, Fizul Sima wrote: > Sorry I was unclear. I would like aMSN to be branded (named) after my > website talkingabout.com (under development) [ie: talkingabout.com > messenger] and have my logo instead of aMSN's > However, full credit remains to aMSN. IE: under help and About sections.... > > I would pay a fee for this and if required donate my server space. My > answers.yahoo.com enhanced clone > is more less an alternative to yahoo.com answers, and aMSN [ie: talkingabout > com messenger] messager would be an alternative to MSN messager. > Please let me know if someone can do this. > > thanks > > Kidsima > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Amsn-devel mailing list > Amsn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amsn-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Amsn-devel mailing list Amsn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amsn-devel
