I forked out a BSD-licensed project and made significant overwrites. In terms of character count, about 70% of the code was written by me. I want to respect copyright and receive attribution for my work. Initially, I intended to ask the best way to do this, but I see that in accordance with this question . I can simply duplicate the original copyright line in the license file and insert my name and year of my work. Cool.
Now my question is related to this line:
Neither the name PROJECTNAME nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without special prior written permission.
My rewrites have led to a significant change in the scope and direction of the application. I found it necessary to change the name of the application in order to better understand what my plug is. So:
- Does the name change cool? I do not see anything in the license that would ban it.
- What is the best way to present this in a license? Should I replace the old name of the project with a new one? Should I change this line to say "neither the name OLDPROJECTNAME, nor the name NEWPROJECTNAME, nor the names of its authors ..."?
I understand that no one here will give legal advice! I'm just looking for some general recommendations and best practices from the open source community.
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