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[–] odium 228 points 8 months ago (4 children)

TIL Wayland is named after a town

[–] [email protected] 113 points 8 months ago (2 children)

so is dracut and weston.

i think that naming software after towns in Massachusetts is somekind of red hat in-joke.

[–] [email protected] 122 points 8 months ago (2 children)

It's even neater. The name of towns/cites cannot be trademarked. The safest thing you can do when naming a project is naming it after a town so you don't run into legal troubles in the future.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 29 points 8 months ago

You can eventually trademark once you get big enough. As with all things law it's a bit tricky. However, the default is that geographic locations aren't trademarkable.

For further reading on when you can trademark.

https://www.yospinlaw.com/2016/06/15/trademark-on-a-geographical-location

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago

Who's going to take this as legal advice and name a project Apple?

https://maps.app.goo.gl/15sDygDQWBd8J9kUA

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago

Openstack releases are named after the nearest town to conference that matches the next series in the alphabet.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I always thought it was the corp from the Alien series. 🤓

[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago

That's Weyland-Yutani

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

In the Brolien universe it's called Wheyland

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

In the mass obsessed universe it's called Weighland.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

In the map obsessed universe it's called Wayland.

Very similar to our universe, that one.