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Re:Show HN: WhatsApp for Desktop by Vespasian on Monday June 22, 2015 @08:40AM (#9757814)
Pretty much this. There are cases where trademarks are defended overly aggressive (e.g. recently IMAX vs arstechnica) but in this case a regular person could reasonably assume that this is official (domain,name,layout,colors).

My advice to the author would be to take the website down, change the domain,repostory binary name. There is no realistic scenario where this (as it is) survives thismonth.

Re:Show HN: WhatsApp for Desktop by impish19 on Monday June 22, 2015 @02:09PM (#9760135)
I agree. 'Desktop client for WhatsApp' sounds about ok. I guess with a name like 'Unofficial WhatsApp for Desktop' would remove all ambiguities and also convey very clearly that you're not trying to trick people.