Re:Unnecessary and Silly (Score 1)

"Your academic papers don't have such a licensce. They are cited because it's considered unethical not to do so. The same would apply to using your source code."

You'd certainly think so, but it turns out that lots and lots of people either 1) don't mention the software at all or 2) mention the software by name, but don't include a citation.

People often think 2) is OK because it allows people to reproduce the results of the paper.

I happen to have a decent amount of experience with this, haven written some software that's used in at least 10x more papers than the number in which it's cited.