[analogj]

I get that, but at the same time, there's a ton of reasons why a developer might not want their name attached to a bunch of code.

As a maintainer myself, I can respect that. If the PR is important enough, I'm more than happy to merge it without knowing the author (with some additional tweaking if necessary).

[Walkman]

Can you tell me one real example of why somebody would do that? I mean REAL, not some random reason you just think of.

[deanclatworthy]

Legally questionable projects. There's plenty of projects on github which can be used for nefarious purposes with disclaimers that it shouldn't be used as such.