snippet of email from Ryan Fugger Sep last year (2012) seems relevant .. group would like to take over the Ripple project and call their system "Ripple". They

snippet of email from Ryan Fugger Sep last year (2012) seems relevant .. group would like to take over the Ripple project and call their system "Ripple". They have offered me xx for this, which would give them ownership of all Ripple software I've written...[and] ripplepay.com domains... I could continue my work independently, but I would need to give it a different name.