And my original question -- does anyone know exactly how I should attribute the original authors and licenses in my Drupalized version?
we have at times included 3rd party code in core. these packages served us well for a while but we eventually moved on. perhaps you can go back in time and figure out how we attributed them. i would think this could be done similarly. i agree that this functionality in core would be useful. XML-RPC by Ed Dumbill: http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/drupal/drupal/includes/xmlrpcs.inc?rev=1.9.4.1... XTEMPLATE theme system http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/drupal/drupal/themes/xtemplate/xtemplate.inc?h... PEAR DB: http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/drupal/drupal/includes/database.pear.inc?hidea... The file above was a wrapper around PEAR DB. I think we required people to download it themselves if they wanted it. So perhaps not much help to you.