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by jjjensen90 3184 days ago
This is a pretty silly objection.

There are plenty of software projects named from a variety of languages not native to the creator of the package. And Jäger has so many neutral meanings and even for a German wouldn't first bring thoughts of the Jagdstaffel I don't think...

Also writing the ä as ae is very common for those who have keyboards without umlaut characters... I've seen it lots of times and doesn't look too weird.

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Absolutely. "Hunter" seems like a perfectly acceptable name for something that collects data, and I can almost guarantee that the vast majority of Americans have never even heard of the term. Most Americans in my experience have have little to no knowledge of WWI, let alone the Jadgstaffl. To object to the name on such grounds seems pedantic in the extreme to me.

Edit: typo

They may know it from Jagermeister and jäger bombs.

We may not know our history, but we do like drinking.