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

[rdeal]

I agree though it does sound a little too Jamaican mon. ;)


> From: "Smith, Jim" <JMSmith at stvincenthealth.com>
> Reply-To: <hobbit at hswn.dk>
> Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:31:22 -0600
> To: <hobbit at hswn.dk>
> Subject: RE: [hobbit] "Hobbit" name legal stuff; slight name change will
> happen
> 
> My suggestion is to kill all lawyers!  <grin>
> 
> Actually, I think "hobbitmon" is good.
> 
> Jim Smith
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk]
> Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 11:30 AM
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: [hobbit] "Hobbit" name legal stuff; slight name change will
> happen
> 
> 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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