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I've actually noticed more GPL-licensed projects give attribution to not only the original author but all contributors.
Whereas I can't tell you how many times I've worked on proprietary software where the company didn't give attribution for MIT-licensed code. Unlike GPL'd code, the author has no way of knowing that they weren't attributed since the code is proprietary.
I believe GPL does have an attribution requirement btw:
There is no section 15 or 16 in GPLv3, but I did find section 7 saying:
But that's an optional thing that you must add onto the GPLv3 license. I'll have to keep that in mind for the future.
That would explain why what I've read mentioned it's not guaranteed in GPLv3 (when comparing to MIT). I'll have to figure out what that notice would look like.