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by j_s 3301 days ago
The naming clash is unfortunate, but will at some point become inevitable as more tools doing the same thing (de-duplicating backup in this case) are created.

GitHub does not restrict licensing on their public repositories; I'm not interested in declaring myself a shaman for the "spirit of GitHub" to address that point.

http://www.infoworld.com/article/2615869/open-source-softwar...

I do agree with this part of your post:

Not cool. Not cool at all.

Either naivety or guerilla growth hacking / marketing; we'll see how things shake out.