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

[T.J. Yang]

How about just "HobbitMonitor" ? plain and simple to understand.

T.J. Yang

Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 15:31:59 +0100
From: D.Nash at elsevier.com
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: RE: [hobbit] "Hobbit" name legal stuff; slight name change will happen



















How
about   “Hob-IT” ?

 

The “-IT”
implies something to do with computers. The word sounds the same as the
existing name. 

 

The
only downside is some people might think it has something to do with cooking. J

 

Dave

 

 

 









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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