More about legal. For any section Entitled "Acknowledgements" or "Dedications", Preserve the Title of the section, and preserve in the section all the substance and tone of each of the contributor acknowledgements and/or dedications given therein.

So why do you raise the problem of 'hundreds of contributers and organisations' requiring acknowledgements. But even if it were true, I don't think it would be very onerous for distros to include a file of acknowledgements. Care to tell me how a distro is going to cram all those acknowledgements on to a box. I think you've misread about 'cramming acknowledgements onto a box though'. Never mind that they have clarified exactly what they mean by "same form and place as other third-party acknowledgements".

I often read any premise to novels (except the Acknowledgements, often) because it helps me get a feel for the writer. More about introduction. More about references. More about description. More about synopsis. More about name. More about preface. More about notes. More about abstract. More about legal. More about conclusions. More about foreword. More about contact. More about conclusion. More about foreword.