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

[Josh Luthman]

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.

I did find this laughable.  It seems the enterprise and team of lawyers are
too lazy to read the front page.

"...you may have chosen to name your project "Hobbit" or "Hobbit Monitor"
out of a deep appreciation for the Tolkien Works."

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On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 12:30 PM, 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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