[hobbit] "Hobbit" name legal stuff; slight name change will happen

[Geoff Hallford]

Not a big fan of the l33t speak. I don't think it is going to help the cause
much or the satisfy the lawyers.

'Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.' --Yogi Berra


On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Nash, David (ELS-OXF)
<D.Nash at elsevier.com>wrote:

>  *How about   "Hob-IT" ?*
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> * *
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> *The "-IT" implies something to do with computers. The word sounds the
> same as the existing name. *
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> * *
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> *The only downside is some people might think it has something to do with
> cooking. **J***
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> * *
>
> *Dave*
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> * *
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> *From:* Dan Simoes [mailto:dan.simoes at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* 01 August 2008 15:02
> *To:* hobbit at hswn.dk
> *Subject:* Re: [hobbit] "Hobbit" name legal stuff; slight name change will
> happen
>
>
>
> How about h0bbit?
>
> (that's a zero, not an O)
> Don't think that would work for a domain though.
>
> Otherwise, I vote for hmon (hobbit monitor) or hsmon (Henrik Stoerner's
> monitor).
> Both are available as .org domains.
>
> Dan
>
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> some lawyers behind the movie company that produced the "Lord of the
> Rings" trilogy have contacted me about using the name "Hobbit" for the
> Hobbit monitor project.
>
> Fortunately, it seems that these people are actually quite sensible.
> They just want to make sure that there is no risk of anyone assuming
> that the "Hobbit monitor" has anything to do with the books, movies,
> merchandise etc. that they produce.
>
> So they've suggested that beginning with the next release, "Hobbit
> monitor" is renamed to either "Hobbi monitor" (without the 't'), or
> "H.O.B.B.I.T. Monitor" . Or something else, but they want to know
> if I pick something else.
>
> The full correspondance can be seen at
> http://www.hobbitmon.com/hobbitdocs/legal/
>
> My current preference is to use the "H.O.B.B.I.T." version;
> this is most like the current name, and it would also fit
> with all of the current URL's used for various Hobbit functions (e.g.
> the "hobbitmon.sf.net" project page). I'm going to write the lawyers and
> get a definite OK that I can use "hobbitmon" in URL's and such;
> I doubt that I can get Sourceforge to accept a project named
> "h.o.b.b.i.t." since that would probably cause havoc with the DNS
> entries ...
>
> But I'd like to hear if there are other suggestions or opinions.
>
>
> Regards,
> Henrik
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