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Subject: Re: new project, old license
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"Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net> writes:
> The original license had the "AS IS" disclaimer that specifically
> mentioned the project's name.
>
> Is it acceptable to rewrite to say ... IS PROVIDED BY THE foo AND bar
> PROJECTs "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS ...

The license normally says "BY THE FOO PROJECT AND ITS CONTRIBUTORS" or
"BY ITS AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS" in which case I'd consider the author
of the derivative work a contributor and leave it at that.  IANAL.

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