[新闻]gaim已经更名为pidgin

[inherit]

不是太明白，支持一个！现在用着GAIM觉得就很好，改名记不住咯！

[ilxr]

还是喜欢 gaim这个名字

[phomeray]

这个单词来自中国，呵呵。名字中既有中文又有英文的意思。

[chinakr]

我来发布一个的简体中文的翻译吧, 供一些英语不太方便的朋友阅读, 仅供参考.

关于Gaim的重要但被迫长期推迟发布的消息
作者: Edu-Map.com/chinakr(翻译) 日期: 2007-04-10 来源: 参考引文

多年前, 在这个项目启动时, 它的名字叫做"GTK+AOL即时通讯工具". 由于这引起了AOL用户的流失, 在AOL施加的压力下, Mark Spencer把项目的名称改为"Gaim".

数年后, AOL注册了"AIM"商标, 并推出了以此命名的IM服务. 为此, 针对这个名字, AOL和Gaim开发者展开了争论, 后者在这个时期得到了第三方法律援助. 这样的局面持续了相当长的时间.

在Gaim 2.0 Beta推出之际, AOL再次表现出极其强硬的态度, 当然也得到了猛烈的回击.

在经历了无数次协商未果后, Gaim开发者终于决定为项目改名, 以彻底摆脱AOL的纠缠. 最终, "Pidgin"成为gaim的新名字, 而"libpurple"成为libgaim的新名字.

鉴于2.0.0发行版的名字和特性都发生了巨大变化, Gaim开发者决定建立自己的服务器(由DVLabs赞助). 因而这个项目的新家将是www.pidgin.im和developer.pidgin.im. SF上的镜像会得到保留, 但Bug跟踪和邮件列表也将迁移. 同时版本控制将采用monotone而不是SF cvs或svn.

通过这几个月的努力, 法律上的问题彻底解决了, 现在Gaim开发者终于可以发布这个官方声明.

最后, 值得重申的是, 这个项目本身并没有任何改变, 2.0.0只是一个新的发行版.

Important and Long Delayed News
April 6th, 2007 - 6:19PM EST

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 later AOL trademarked "AIM," and started referring to their IM services using that name. They complained. The issue was brought up on Slashdot, and the Gaim 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. The public thought the issue had gone away then. It sorta did, in that AOL stopped responding to Gaim's 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 Gaim's 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. Then they would threaten a different Gaim developer. Each time a new Gaim developer was threatened, we had to look at new legal support, to prevent a conflict of interest.

This process could not go on forever. As a result we ended up forming the Instant Messaging Freedom Corporation, 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 advice, 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 advice, we have also kept this information closely controlled.

At long last, I am pleased to announce that we have a signed settlement and can release our new version. There is one catch however: we have had to change the project's name.

After a long, and unfortunately secret debate (as we could not say why we were looking at a name change, we ended up just doing this ourselves), 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, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pidgin.

Since so much is changing between the name and the nature of the 2.0.0 release itself, we decided to go ahead with something we have talked about doing for a while now. We have set up 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, 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 deeply hated the need to keep some portion of our work, decision making and discussion secret for a time. I sincerely apologize that as a result of this need, you all have had no chance to help us with it, and to provide feedback.

Now that the settlement is signed, we hope to have the final Pidgin 2.0.0 release late this week or early next.

We are going to release it with a 2.0.0 version number, and an API compatibility layer for plugin authors. The project has not changed; this is our 2.0.0 release, not some new program that requires new version numbering.

[雕啸长空]

打倒不翻译说明的

那这个艰巨的任务就交给你s来办了

招唤雕，雕喜欢译，内核、软件、说明，他都喜欢译

瞎扯，我根压根就不会蝌蚪文.......

PS:再次打倒引文不翻译的，而且是这么一段，且自己蝌蚪文又好的

[RegentW]

nothing changed but the name...
i do hope the new name brings some major enhancement

[poet]

pidgin 怎么读？

是按和平鸽（pigeon）一样读么？

这名字还不错嘛！

[pengtu]

查字典，感觉读起来是‘批～准’，哈，有意思，批准了！

<--- 朗道英汉字典5.0 --->
pidgin
*['pidʒin]
n. 混杂语言, 混杂行话, 事务
<--- 牛津现代英汉双解词典 --->
speak in pidgin 讲洋泾滨话

<--- 朗道英汉字典5.0 --->
purple
*['pә:pl]
n. 紫色, 帝位
a. 紫色的, 帝王的, 华而不实的
vt. (使)成紫色 vi. (使)成紫色
【医】 紫色, 紫
<--- 计算机词汇 --->
purple
紫色的

pidgin 怎么读？
是按和平鸽（pigeon）一样读么？
这名字还不错嘛！