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How coume the GPL is so anti-attribution anyway? What would be so wrong if it (GPL) had a requirement for anyone distributing code to maintain any attribution l

by billpg 17y ago

How coume the GPL is so anti-attribution anyway? What would be so wrong if it (GPL) had a requirement for anyone distributing code to maintain any attribution left behind by others? So I'd have to keep a Help/About with a long list of names. Big whoop.

cdr 17y ago
No doubt there's someone much more knowledgeable than me, but GPLv2 wasn't specifically anti-attribution, but anti-any-additional-requirements. GPLv3 specifically allows some limited forms of attribution.