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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>How about find a name so obscure in the
Silmarillion that even the lawyers couldn’t find it.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Seriously though, how about hobbiton.</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>-----Original Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> Josh Luthman
[mailto:josh@imaginenetworksllc.com] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, July 31, 2008
12:41 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> hobbit@hswn.dk<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [hobbit]
"Hobbit" name legal stuff; slight name change will happen</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:
.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>My
preference is to call it "Hobbitmon". Small change that should
be legally satisfying and yet subtle to keep everyone on track. Not to
mention you don't have to move the project on SF.<br>
<br>
I did find this laughable. It seems the enterprise and team of lawyers
are too lazy to read the front page.<br>
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"...you may have chosen to name your project "Hobbit" or
"Hobbit Monitor" out of a deep appreciation for the Tolkien
Works."<br>
<br>
Josh Luthman<br>
Office: 937-552-2340<br>
Direct: 937-552-2343<br>
1100 Wayne St<br>
Suite 1337<br>
Troy, OH 45373<br>
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Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.<br>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Henrik Stoerner <<a
href="mailto:henrik@hswn.dk">henrik@hswn.dk</a>> wrote:</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:
.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Hi
everyone,<br>
<br>
some lawyers behind the movie company that produced the "Lord of the<br>
Rings" trilogy have contacted me about using the name "Hobbit"
for the<br>
Hobbit monitor project.<br>
<br>
Fortunately, it seems that these people are actually quite sensible.<br>
They just want to make sure that there is no risk of anyone assuming<br>
that the "Hobbit monitor" has anything to do with the books, movies,<br>
merchandise etc. that they produce.<br>
<br>
So they've suggested that beginning with the next release, "Hobbit<br>
monitor" is renamed to either "Hobbi monitor" (without the 't'),
or<br>
"H.O.B.B.I.T. Monitor" . Or something else, but they want to know<br>
if I pick something else.<br>
<br>
The full correspondance can be seen at<br>
<a href="http://www.hobbitmon.com/hobbitdocs/legal/" target="_blank">http://www.hobbitmon.com/hobbitdocs/legal/</a><br>
<br>
My current preference is to use the "H.O.B.B.I.T." version;<br>
this is most like the current name, and it would also fit<br>
with all of the current URL's used for various Hobbit functions (e.g.<br>
the "<a href="http://hobbitmon.sf.net" target="_blank">hobbitmon.sf.net</a>"
project page). I'm going to write the lawyers and<br>
get a definite OK that I can use "hobbitmon" in URL's and such;<br>
I doubt that I can get Sourceforge to accept a project named<br>
"h.o.b.b.i.t." since that would probably cause havoc with the DNS<br>
entries ...<br>
<br>
But I'd like to hear if there are other suggestions or opinions.<br>
<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Henrik<br>
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