The Stanford Dragon is now available as a manifold mesh in a ready to use .blend!
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
The original model can be found in The Stanford 3D Scanning Repository: http://graphics.stanford.edu/data/3Dscanrep/
Shared with permission. Please read further details inside the .blend file.
which if so, why should i have to give credit to him and not stanford?
You can download the original from the Stanford University website https://graphics.stanford.edu/data/3Dscanrep/ and import it (the import Stanford .ply add-on is enabled by default)
So this is the original model with all the triangles and stuff? It's not modified or retopped?