dcollis

I cant help that you might not agree with the answers.

whooami- I do disagree with you on this, but I don’t have a problem with that.
I do have a problem with long-time users on a forum being curt/dismissive to new users when they see something they disagree with/dislike – and this is why I replied quoting you. You did follow up your reply with something more thoughtful, but I didn’t see that until after I had posted, so I apologise for being so quick to get on the defensive.

I also am on various other CMS boards and also disagree with people getting ‘pissy’. It accomplishes nothing. However, my original question was how people felt about it – generally people do consider removing credits to be bad form and I don’t see a problem with encouraging people to keep the credits there (with an explanation as to why this is a good thing to do).

As for the number10 site, I still thing it’s wrong that they don’t give credit. As you suggest, I will ask the PM (the minute the feedback part of the site opens up). I think the government should support open-source software and I don’t think a credit *somewhere* on the PM’s site would be too much to ask for.

On a lighter note, thanks for pointing out that plugin, i’ve not noticed it before – I’ll have to give it a try. (It should also be noted that this plugin is what would have removed the wordpress metatag from the source too)

Who is wordpress?

Ok, even if you’re being funny/pedantic that comment is just unnecessary. Clearly I mean that most of the work was being done for them by the framework that wordpress provides. It’s much easier to achnowledge wordpress than list all of the developers involved…

because they want to, and thats that.

The open-source world thrives on acknowledgements and recommendations. The majority of open-source communities at the very least encourage users to do this.
But i’m very sorry for daring to ask such a stupid question.

Fair enough.

Personally I think sites should credit their framework/cms somewhere if it is an open-source one, whether or not the licence requires it. It’s the least you can do for getting so much for free.

I mean, in this case the tags are even removed from the source code… seems unnecessary. My guess: someone was paid quite a bit of money to put the site together and probably wanted to hide the fact that a lot of the work was done for them by wordpress.
I don’t see the need personally – the site looks good anyway and still must have required quite a bit of work to put together… why try and hide WordPress?