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

[Omar Hermannsson <omar (at) basis.is>]

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Ja, hobbitmon sounds good mon ;) That is, if it's acceptable to the devils advocates.


Cheers,
Omar
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On fim 31.júl 2008 20:28, Josh Luthman wrote:
> I know I could go for a trip to Jamaica.  Maybe Hobbitmon will help me
> keep those thoughts at bay.
> 
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> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 12:41 PM, rdeal <rdeal (at) jcvi.org
> <mailto:rdeal (at) jcvi.org>> wrote:
> 
>     I agree though it does sound a little too Jamaican mon. ;)
> 
> 
>     > From: "Smith, Jim" <JMSmith (at) stvincenthealth.com
>     <mailto:JMSmith (at) stvincenthealth.com>>
>     > Reply-To: <hobbit (at) hswn.dk <mailto:hobbit (at) hswn.dk>>
>     > Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:31:22 -0600
>     > To: <hobbit (at) hswn.dk <mailto: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 <mailto:henrik (at) hswn.dk>]
>     > Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 11:30 AM
>     > To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk <mailto: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.to much
>     >
>     > 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 <http://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.
>     >to much
>     >
>     > Regards,
>     > Henrik
>     >
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