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by jpalomaki 4995 days ago
A general request (not specifically towards the author): If you release a project under open source license, please be specific about what kind of attribution you would like to get when your project is used within a product.

Giving credit would be so much easier if one could use for example Maven or npm to automatically create a list of attributions that could be then formatted and included in the "About page".

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Ruby's gemspec format includes an array of authors or a singular author for this purpose. It's quite handy.