Some clarifications/updates:
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Code authors who want to avoid the whole song and dance of fully licensing their code may put a notice either in their thread or in the source code itself noting that attribution is required, and FEU will respect that. We don’t have any particular legalese for what “F2U”/“F2E” means about code in general (you should look up previous problems with intellectual property around code if you’re interested, this gets really complicated), but a rule of thumb is that if you used it in any meaningful way and the author wants credit, you should list them. There’s no shame in overcrediting!
Caveat: If either the unlicensed code in question or at least one public release of your project was published before 2024-02-29 (the date that this policy takes effect), a best-effort attribution is fine.
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These requirements are not applied retroactively – projects with releases currently on FEU will not be required to be updated to the new standard until their next public release. As far as we know, most projects currently with public releases are already following these guidelines in spirit. If you spot a project published before 2024-02-29 that is missing a credits list, please let the staff know and we’ll deal with those on a case-by-case basis.