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

[Josh Luthman]

I know I could go for a trip to Jamaica.  Maybe Hobbitmon will help me keep
those thoughts at bay.

Josh Luthman
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On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 12:41 PM, rdeal <rdeal at jcvi.org> wrote:

> 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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