Kopia also means a copy in Polish and the author is Polish. The first paragraph in the software's Github page also confirms the Polish origin of the name: https://github.com/kopia/kopia/

Tangentially, as far as OSS names of Polish go, kopia is pretty tame. A popular deduplicating app is named czkawka (hiccup). Now that choice is just mean towards non-Polish speakers. :)

Oh my, this is a fantastic view of life - from the czkawka github page:

  Czkawka is a Polish word which means hiccup.

  I chose this name because I wanted to hear people speaking other languages pronounce it, so feel free to spell it the way you want.

  This name is not as bad as it seems, because I was also thinking about using words like żółć, gżegżółka or żołądź

I had to google pronounciation of czkawka and to me it sounds exactly how i would pronounce it - chkavka or чкавка in Russian

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/czkawka

This sounds very much in the spirit of Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz[0]

[0] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AfKZclMWS1U

> as far as OSS names of Polish go, kopia is pretty tame

Well indeed.

There's a project on GitHub with 1.7k stars called GitKurwa[1].

Now that's proper untame Polish. ;-)

[1] https://github.com/jakubnabrdalik/gitkurwa

To be more precise it means "copy" in the noun sense, not the verb. It's a distinction that a lot of bad translations from English fail to make, like when X changed "tweet" to "post".

My first impression was that it could have also been spanish "Copia" (copy), but built for KDE (thus following the naming trend of those apps)

Or even Portuguese, "cópia".

Also in Polish and other Slavic languages probably, too.

Ah, just noticed. The founder is Polish. That explains the name.

As a Pole, I actually greatly appreciate these Slavic names in tech.