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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Whatsup on Jolla

They can only complain for trademark violation, and they are right as "whatsup" is quite close to their trademark. In fact, in USA, they have to actively defend their trademark or risk losing it.
Clean reverse engineering for interoperability is protected in USA and EU.
Just renaming the thing to anything else shoul solve the issue.
By the way, I'm not a lawyer (but the FSF has some really good ones you could talk to)

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Originally Posted by maacruz (Post 1478716)

They complained that "yowsup" is too similar to "whatsapp" and confuses people. And so they're going to to complain and threaten and bully anyway regardless of the name.

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Originally Posted by CepiPerez (Post 1478704)

I've received an email from what$app lawyers... so I don't think I should keep maintaining this app

Ouch, that is some bad news.

But given the nastiness and trigger-happy lawyer, I understand that you might be fed up with this.

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Originally Posted by maacruz (Post 1478716)

By the way, I'm not a lawyer (but the FSF has some really good ones you could talk to)

Maybe we could ask help from FSF as suggested by @Maacruz.

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Originally Posted by maacruz (Post 1478716)

Clean reverse engineering for interoperability is protected in USA and EU.

Not sure for USA, but at least I think that's the case for EU, and also here around in Switzerland.

So maybe we could ask legal help from FSF, maybe crowd source the necessary legal money and try to find a solution that can't be sued by Whatsapp. And maybe some developper will be interested to keep the work started by CepiPerez.

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Originally Posted by coderus (Post 1478712)

All main devs i know are received similar messages, most of projects are closed.

And what about you ? Are you throwing the ball, or are you still interested to continue working on Mitakuluu3 ?

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Originally Posted by tgalal (Post 1478717)

They complained that "yowsup" is too similar to "whatsapp" and confuses people. And so they're going to to complain and threaten and bully anyway regardless of the name.

They tried a DMCA takedown before and it didn't work either

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Originally Posted by maacruz (Post 1478750)

They tried a DMCA takedown before and it didn't work either

That's a totally different matter/story...

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is it possible to get whatsup/sailfish to play amr audios?

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whats the issue? They can't sue him for anything.

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Originally Posted by CepiPerez (Post 1478704)

I've received an email from what$app lawyers... so I don't think I should keep maintaining this app

Sad news. Anyhow, could you publish the email (ofc. anonymized) ?
Also I hope we'll find a new developer but for that we need the sources. Any plans to make Whatsup open source before abandoning?

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at least Mitäkuuluu doesn't sound like Whatsapp at all :)

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Whatsup on Jolla

but means about same in finnish.