With the license intact, I wouldn't say it's unethical to remove the history[0]. It's functionally the same as "it would make my life easier to copy-paste this

With the license intact, I wouldn't say it's unethical to remove the history[0]. It's functionally the same as "it would make my life easier to copy-paste this code into my app while fulfilling licensing requirements). At the end of the day, an intact license should cover any attribution needs, and I'd say the history is separate from the code (otherwise, for example, a project in violation of a license could never undo that violation). [0]It's a whole lot of other bad things though: bad practice, and confusing, and something I'd never considered doing.