As always, thanks for the info Jamil vhai Emon
On 04/09/2007 01:44 PM, Jamil Ahmed wrote: > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Luke Schierer <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:lschiere%40users.sf.net>> > Date: Apr 7, 2007 7:57 PM > Subject: [Gaim-i18n] [Gaim-packagers] Important and long delayed news > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:gaim-i18n%40lists.sf.net> > > Dear translators, > > Many years ago, when this project was first started, it was called "GTK+ > AOL Instant Messenger." AOL naturally complained, and Mark Spencer > changed the name to "Gaim." AOL was appeased, and no one really ever > heard of it because there were very few users back then. > > A few years passed, AOL trademarked "AIM," and started refering to their > IM services under that name. They complained. The issue was brought up > on Slashdot, and the developers at the time got some legal support. > That legal support advised that the ongoing discussions with AOL be kept > confidential until fully settled, and so it remained. Everyone thought > the issue went away then. It sorta did, in that AOL stopped responding > to the legal support for a while. > > Our legal support has changed several times, and each group of lawyers > have recommended silence & secrecy. Around the time of the first 2.0.0 > beta, AOL came back into our lives in a very strong way, this time > threatening to sue Sean. > > This represents a clear pattern. AOL received more pushback than they > expected, and would sort of let things stand for a while. They they > woudl threaten a different Gaim developer. Each time a new Gaim > developer was threatened, we had to look at new legal support. > > This process could not go on forever. As a result we ended up forming > the Instant Messaging Freedom Coporation, and making it legally > responsible for Gaim. We also had our new legal support work to create > a real settlement with AOL that would get this issue dismissed from our > lives forever. > > Getting a settlement with AOL has taken FAR FAR longer than we would > have ever guessed. On legal advise, we have refrained from any non-beta > release during this process as a show of good faith, and to keep AOL > from giving up on it. Again, on legal advise, we have also kept this > information closely embargoed. > > At long last, I am pleased to announce, that we have a signed > settlement, and can again release. There is one catch however, we have > had to change the project's name. > > After long, and unfortunately secret (as we could not say why we were > looking at a name change, we ended up just doing this ourselves), > debate, we settled on the name "Pidgin" for gaim itself, "libpurple" for > libgaim (which, as of 2.0.0 beta6, exists), and "finch" for gaim-text. > Yes, the spelling of "Pidgin" is intentional. > > Since between the name, and the nature of the 2.0.0 release itself, so > much is changing, we decided to go ahead with something we have talked > about doing for a while now anyway. We have gotten our own server, > kindly donated by DVLabs. As a result our new home will be > www.pidgin.im and developer.pidgin.im We, at least for now, will still > be using SF's mirroring system for releases. However, the bug tracking > will no longer be on SF, and we will be migrating the mailing lists at > some point soon. Also, we have chosen to go with monotone for our > revision control, rather than the SF cvs or svn. > > In the last week or so, an upgrade to SF's infrastructure caused an old > version of the gaim-cabal list to become briefly public. It has always > been our intention to end-of-life this list and make its archives public > once the settlement was signed. Fortunately, very few people took > notice of the lapse, and equally fortunately, the legal process has > concluded, allowing us to make a formal announcement now, instead of > months from now. > > I, and all of pidgin's development team have deaply hated the need to > keep some portion of our work, decision making and discussion secret for > a time. I sincerely appologize that as a result of this need, you all > have had no chance to help us with it, and to provide feedback. I also > regret that this will create additional work for you. > > Now that the settlement is signed, we are looking at making our public > announcement sometime this weekend or early this coming week. We hope > to have the final pidgin 2.0.0 release late this week or early next. > > I know we have announced a string freeze several times, and only poorly > kept the source actually frozen. Hopefully you now see why there were > several false attempts at releasing (delays in the legal process), and > why it has been hard to honor the string freeze (no sure notion of when > exactly we would be able to release, whether in weeks or in months). > This will be the last string change before the final release. Ethan > tells me that for some languages this will be more than a search and > replace operation, or I would just sed the po files and change the name > myself. > > Nathan is working on getting a new copy of the i18n page up at > www.pidgin.im. We are closing the SF tracker (I believe there are one > or two translation updates still in it. I will grab those shortly), so > new updates should go to developer.pidgin.im, just create a ticket for > them. You may need to gzip your po file to be able to upload it. > > luke > > luke > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. 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