Ask HN: How to name an OSS project extracted from a closed-source product? We will be open-sourcing the core of our platform in April, currently in the process of pulling it out of our codebase. We already have a CLI for our customers; we were planning to use that as our open-source version. I see some open-source projects by for-profit companies that use different names (AuthZed v. SpiceDB), but then there are companies/projects like Mongo, Terraform, and Redhat. Are you less likely to use an open-source tool if it shares branding with a for-profit company? We're also planning to submit our spec to the CNCF. Does that impact your opinion? Are we overthinking this? Is anyone concerned about this? |
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