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 …
I was reading the fiasco that erupted out of the recent Broadcom driver
dispute and couldn't help but shake my head in disbelief.
It was discovered that source code originating from the bcm43xx driver
(licensed under the GPL) had been copied verbatim and committed into
OpenBSD's own bcw driver.