I might be remembering it wrong, but iirc it so transpired that there was a thread on the Lua mailing list about the unfortunate clash in the name 'luv'.
richardhundt/luv is older of the two pieces of software but Richard graciously offered to yield (pun intended) the name to luvit folks and continued to develop on his code and ideas under a new name, shine. richardhundt/luv is more than an obvious wrapper over libuv whcih is what luvit/luv intended to be.
Please bear in mind I might have got the exact events (Gawd, pun again, this time unintended) wrong, but if you are interested you will be able to find this on the lua mailing list archives.
richardhundt/luv is older of the two pieces of software but Richard graciously offered to yield (pun intended) the name to luvit folks and continued to develop on his code and ideas under a new name, shine. richardhundt/luv is more than an obvious wrapper over libuv whcih is what luvit/luv intended to be.
Please bear in mind I might have got the exact events (Gawd, pun again, this time unintended) wrong, but if you are interested you will be able to find this on the lua mailing list archives.