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by web_chops 5175 days ago
You got it reverse. Most permissive licenses need attribution (in form of leaving the original header comment etc) which lets the whole world know that you are using the component. A commercial license gives you complete anonymity (most let you completely change the source code) except for the charge on your credit card bill.

And I don't think its greed. Not many applications on any platform gets written completely from scratch without using other libraries.
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wavephorm 5175 days ago 

  Most permissive licenses need attribution (in form of leaving the 
  original header comment etc) which lets the whole world know
If the code is being used for commercial and propriety purposes then the code is never seen, never attributed. Attribution in the form of source code comments is really only valuable in other open source projects.
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