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ChrisMayfield · ChrisMayfield · commit 390cbbe83b80 · 2016-05-06T09:33:10.000-04:00
diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 The MIT License (MIT)
 
-Copyright (c) 2016 Allen Downey
+Copyright (c) 2016 Allen Downey and Chris Mayfield
 
 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
 of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
@@ -13,17 +13,19 @@ If you don't already have a GitHub account, you'll need to create one.
 After forking, you'll have your own repository on GitHub that you can use to keep track of code you write.
 Then you can ``clone'' the repository, which downloads a copy of the files to your computer.
 
-*   Or you could clone the repository without forking.  If you choose this option, you don't need a GitHub account, but you won't be able to save your changes back in GitHub.
+*   Alternatively, you could clone the repository without forking.
+If you choose this option, you don't need a GitHub account, but you won't be able to save your changes back in GitHub.
 
 *   If you don't want to use Git at all, you can download the code in a zip archive using the "Download ZIP" button on this page, or [this link](http://tinyurl.com/ThinkJavaCodeZip).
 
-To clone a repository, you need a Git client installed on your computer.  The URL of this repository is `https://github.com/AllenDowney/ThinkJavaCode.git`.  If you use Git from the command line, you can clone it like this:
+To clone a repository, you need a Git client installed on your computer.
+The URL of this repository is `https://github.com/AllenDowney/ThinkJavaCode.git`.
+If you use Git from the command line, you can clone it like this:
 
     git clone https://github.com/AllenDowney/ThinkJavaCode.git
 
 After you clone the repository or unzip the zip file, you should have a directory called `ThinkJavaCode` with a subdirectory for each chapter in the book.
 
-All the examples in this book were developed and tested using Java SE Development Kit 7.
+All examples in this book were developed and tested using Java SE Development Kit 8.
 If you are using a more recent version, the examples in this book should still work.
 If you are using an older version, some of them may not.
-
