It appears that AOL's legal team had set its gaze upon Gaim again and the developers were forced to change the name of the instant messenger under a settlement agreement.

After a secret debate, they decided on the name "Pidgin" for Gaim itself, "libpurple" for libgaim, and "Finch" for gaim-text.

The change was unfortunately necessary in order for the developers to release the stable version of Gaim 2 which is expected to be out within the next two weeks.

The developers have also decided that it was finally time to leave Sourceforge and relocate to their own server.