Comment by LorenDB
4 months ago
Was Pidgin TOS-compliant back in the day? I'm a young whippersnapper, so I don't have experience with it myself.
4 months ago
Was Pidgin TOS-compliant back in the day? I'm a young whippersnapper, so I don't have experience with it myself.
Well it did have to change its name from GAIM to Pidgin at some point because it infringed on "AIM" by AOL. And whether or not Pidgin was fully "TOS-compliant" (which it might have been depending on the service we'd be looking at) is not as relevant as whether these terms would have been actually legally enforceable or not.
That was due to a trademark violation and nothing to do with TOS.
We (Pidgin/Gaim/Finch/libpurple) have never been TOS compliant.