[aethertron]

>Moral rights are part of the Berne Convention, it's not limited to Europe.

Not everywhere has unalienable ones. You can waive them in the UK and USA, which is what publishing under a FOSS license implies, to an extent.

Anyway, moral rights aren't just about mangling a work. It's about mangling work in a way that makes the original author look bad. But with software, with the internet, no matter how bad the mangling, you can Google the author and find, say, his disgruntled Github comments stating his disapproval of the changes, so no reputational damage should accrue. Moral rights violation: nullified. Eh?