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I get that, but at the same time, there's a ton of reasons why a developer might not want their name attached to a bunch of code.

As a maintainer myself, I can respect that. If the PR is important enough, I'm more than happy to merge it without knowing the author (with some additional tweaking if necessary).

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Can you tell me one real example of why somebody would do that? I mean REAL, not some random reason you just think of.

Legally questionable projects. There's plenty of projects on github which can be used for nefarious purposes with disclaimers that it shouldn't be used as such.

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