2011/4/4 Sandeep Pillai <[email protected]>: > Now i make changes to the code and plan to re-distribute, the license text > says " Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright > notice", so in my license I still have to maintain "Copyright (c) 2011, XYZ" > ?, or can i change it to or include "Copyright (c) 2011, MyOrganisation" ?
You will have it as: Copyright XYZ Inc. 2011 Portions Copyright ABC Ltd. 2011 or a variant thereof. > Also can the disclaimer statement that "THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY XYZ" be > edited to include the new contributor/contributors name. Yes. Now you are doing the providing. So this will become "This software is provided by ABC". > Does making changes to Copyright or Disclaimer break the license, Well, as a general rule, no. But there might be cases where this could happen. For example, an author can release software under a non-perpetual license that expires when a copyright assignment happens. In which case, a change to copyright might automatically invalidate the license. Binand -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
