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Is there a section to talk about Java ME? Apps, etc. (3)
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2015-08-05
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Originally Posted by maacruz
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 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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2015-08-05
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Originally Posted by CepiPerez
Ouch, that is some bad news.
I've received an email from what$app lawyers... so I don't think I should keep maintaining this app
But given the nastiness and trigger-happy lawyer, I understand that you might be fed up with this.
Originally Posted by maacruz
Maybe we could ask help from FSF as suggested by @Maacruz.
By the way, I'm not a lawyer (but the FSF has some really good ones you could talk to)
Originally Posted by maacruz
Not sure for USA, but at least I think that's the case for EU, and also here around in Switzerland.
Clean reverse engineering for interoperability is protected in USA and EU.
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.
Originally Posted by coderus
And what about you ? Are you throwing the ball, or are you still interested to continue working on Mitakuluu3 ?
All main devs i know are received similar messages, most of projects are closed.
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2015-08-05
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#504
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Originally Posted by tgalal
They tried a DMCA takedown before and it didn't work either
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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2015-08-05
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Originally Posted by maacruz
That's a totally different matter/story...
They tried a DMCA takedown before and it didn't work either
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2015-08-05
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#506
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is it possible to get whatsup/sailfish to play amr audios?
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2015-08-05
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#507
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whats the issue? They can't sue him for anything.
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2015-08-06
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Originally Posted by CepiPerez
Sad news. Anyhow, could you publish the email (ofc. anonymized) ?
I've received an email from what$app lawyers... so I don't think I should keep maintaining this app
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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2015-08-06
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#509
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at least Mitäkuuluu doesn't sound like Whatsapp at all 
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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)