Hi,
If i take code from public repository and the license text is as follows.
" ## Copyright (c) 2011, XYZ ## All rights reserved.
## Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without ## modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: ## Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright ## notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. ## Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright ## notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the ## documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. ## Neither the name of the <organization> nor the ## names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products ## derived from this software without specific prior written permission.
## THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY XYZ ''AS IS'' AND ANY ## EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED ## WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE ## DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL XYZ BE LIABLE FOR ANY ## DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ## (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE. "
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" ?
Also can the disclaimer statement that "THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY XYZ" be edited to include the new contributor/contributors name.
Does making changes to Copyright or Disclaimer break the license,
Thanks Sandeep.