Wie das Projekt zu seinem Namen kam
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The project is called TILL, expanded as Trusted Independent Ledger Library. A till is the cash drawer: the oldest and plainest object in small-business bookkeeping, which is the audience.
It is the third name. The earlier working titles fell away one after another, the last of them killed by the Swiss trademark register. TILL was checked against Swissreg by paginating the complete result set for the query: 42 Swiss marks and 78 international ones, of which exactly one exact "TILL" mark is active, and it covers chemicals, industrial oils and tobacco.
That is a pre-filter and not legal clearance, and we will not describe it as clearance. The screen covered Switzerland only. EUIPO and USPTO are unsearched, and a Swiss attorney has to clear the relevant Nice classes before any money is spent on a filing.
The handle everywhere is `tillbooks`, because the bare `till` was taken on every namespace worth having. The CLI binary is still `till`, since a binary name owes nothing to a package name.