Quoting Niall Walsh (linux at esatclear.ie):
> You must include a notice in each of Your Modifications that identifies
> You as the Contributor of the Modification."
>> So that the theoretical dissident programmer could distribute a
> modification without having to admit to ownership.
That licence requirement could be met by "Module foo.c was contributed
2005-06-14 by Anon Y. Mouse of the Fugitive Coders Group". The cited
clause's intent is not to require the equivalent of biometrics and a
mugshot from any contributor, but rather to distinguish cleanly between
original code and subsequent contributions.
And _that_ is an example of what I mean by "context-challenged". ;->
Licences are not code for a Turing machine: They're designed to be
interpreted by judges, who (being modestly optimistic, for a moment)
have brains and are supposed to apply them to such things.
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