blog! “Do open source licences cover the Ship of Theseus?”
I recently downloaded a single-page HTML template for a project I was working on. I wanted a good-looking scaffold to help me getting running quickly. The code had an attribution licence which I was happy to comply with. I ended up removing about a whole bunch of the HTML that I didn't need. That also […]
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I tend to leave the attribution in regardless of how much had changed. Even if theres hardly anything left of the original, to me it's not the code as much as it is the code plus (ideas, inspiration, comments, links to others, etc.). So the attribution is not so much to thank for the code, but to direct others to a helpful or inspiring person.