The list of OSI approved licenses include licenses that have names of companies embedded in them, so to speak.
If alterations are made so that these names are changed to fit the new software that is licensed under such a license, would the new software be OSI certified?
For example, I wish to use the IBM Public license version 1.0, and I change every instance of "International Business Machines Corporation" or "IBM" to "Example Corporation".
Also, what about superficial changes to the license itself, on the same lines as of the above mentioned alterations?
Do these affect the open source status of the software?
For example, using the BSD license template I find that "name of the <ORGANIZATION> nor the names of its contributors" is more suitably replaced by "names of the copyright holders nor the names of the contributors", in the 3rd condition.
Furthermore, what if I replace "COPYRIGHT OWNER" with "COPYRIGHT HOLDERS" in the disclaimer, considering that the former is also used?
Thanks, Eugene Wee
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