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A lot of how people and even companies conduct themselves has as much to do with cultural norms as it does with strict legal requirements.

It looks like Matt Asay, the lead for the open source and marketing team at AWS, has already reached out and said he's looking into it (and thanked Tim for the contribution).

I think there's generally a cultural norm to recognize an individual's contributions in general, especially when freely given.

If the comments on here largely echoed that sentiment and demonstrated that it was a cultural norm, expect AWS (and others) to be more likely to adhere to it in the future — it costs almost nothing, but there's definitely a value in having a positive reputation.

We do have the capacity as a community to define and uphold such cultural norms. Laws and licenses are not as binary as code.

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