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TIL Wayland is named after a town
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so is dracut and weston.
i think that naming software after towns in Massachusetts is somekind of red hat in-joke.
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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.
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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
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Who's going to take this as legal advice and name a project Apple?
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Openstack releases are named after the nearest town to conference that matches the next series in the alphabet.
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I always thought it was the corp from the Alien series. 🤓
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That's Weyland-Yutani
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In the Brolien universe it's called Wheyland
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In the mass obsessed universe it's called Weighland.
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In the map obsessed universe it's called Wayland.
Very similar to our universe, that one.
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I always thought this was the origin https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayland_the_Smith
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