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Re:Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software by glass- on Saturday June 13, 2015 @04:00PM (#9712409)
> Giving credit as a matter of courtesy is often good behavior. However, neither the modern three-clause BSD license nor MIT require it.

Read the very first clause of the 3-clause BSD license, and the first condition of the MIT License.

You'll find that they both require you to retain the "above copyright notice" which usually includes a line such as "Copyright (c) <year> <name>".

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Re:Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software by ghaff on Sunday June 14, 2015 @10:26AM (#9715019)
That's why I specifically wrote "credit" rather than copyright notice. If you distribute modified binaries without code (as you can do with BSD/MIT), there's no copyright notice on code to see.
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Re:Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software by danieldk on Sunday June 14, 2015 @01:41PM (#9715696)
Then read the second term:

2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

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