Florian Weimer wrote:
How? As MJ said, it's clearly "practical" to remove the author's
name in places where it would nevertheless be a grievous
restriction.
So you suggest that if someone approaches Debian and asks his name to
be removed, Debian would ignore this request even if it can be
honored, practically speaking?
I think this clause mainly deals with something Debian does anyway, as
a mrere courtesy.
I believe that was the intent. As stated, though, it could be abused; it
doesn't restrict the erasing to just authorship credit.
The classic example here is an autobiographical work. The author could
ask that all references to herself be removed from a derivative work
critical of her.
In software documentation, an original author could require that
changelogs or discussion of differences in design or implementation
("Original Author had it this way; the new version does it this other
way") be removed.
~ESP
