Verm <pov### [at] thirteeendynucom> wrote:
> Sometimes people genuinely forget where they originally got code from
> especially if they've heavily hacked it.

don't worry:  lawyers will remind you! :)

ok, lame joke... next!

> Also it would get very long
> winded and tedious having to give credit for every author of every item
> in a busy scene if each item was taken from the proposed library and
> each item had been repeatedly modified by different people.

Yes, specially having to list people who just modified a few lines of code
rather than created it.  Mind you, this "give credit where credit is due"
provision doesn't exist in the GPL and LGPL licenses because they
understand it would bring such issues in collaborative works:
collaborative work means small contributions are as important as large and
giving credit to everyone is quite like giving credit to no one.

Credit listing in BSD and MIT licenses can grow insane, but at least, they
are hidden in C headers while such listing would indeed have to be compiled
by hand in a text file, say, credits.txt and be released together with the
rendered image.  Of course, a script of sorts, perhaps interfacing with the
Version Control System in charge of the collection, could possibly track the
scene dependencies and generate credits.txt.

> Sorry not a very helpful post

actually, it brought another excellent point to the table.  thank you!

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