> RawTherapee was originally written by Gábor Horváth of Budapest, Hungary. The name "Therapee" was originally an acronym derived from "The Experimental Raw Photo Editor".
I wouldn't be surprised if the author (Hungarian has the same etymology for therapist, therapy etc.) thought therapee means therapy or perhaps therapist. Because RawTherapist would make sense as a name.
There's a fork of RawTherapee that solves the name problem, except they named it ART which is completely undiscoverable. Some projects are just cursed with bad naming, I think.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/raw#Verb
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rapee#Noun
It's the rapist finder .com but even worse