Like with many things related to license and copyright, this is an issue of culture. Maybe programmers should realize it's in our common interest to have some

Like with many things related to license and copyright, this is an issue of culture. Maybe programmers should realize it's in our common interest to have some kind of group voice. Other random groups with lower stakes seem to get concessions. How about instead of role-playing as lawyers, we realize that maybe they should've thrown this guy a bone in the form of an attribution purely for the purposes of etiquette.