It’s open source, you can remove it. (I think?)
Still, there are lots of places you can’t put such a statement in. It’s polite to talk about those whose work you benefited from. An about page on your blog/forum with a link would be enough. Or maybe somewhere near where you put your advertising, a link with the logo of bbpress. Unitrusive and can even be pretty if you make a nice banner.
You probably need to change the poster_id somewhere. Try around. If you find out how, do tell.
HEAVILY modded forum warning. I only use bbPress because of the WordPress integration, and I want it as close as possible to other forums, so I did this (with only amateur self-learned skills):
http://nocontinues.net/forum/
Feel free to use it as reference, but it’s like nothing I’ve ever seen done in bbPress. Like, at all. And not only the looks, functions too. I’m especially proud of the support of bbcode, including nested
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Works perfect for me in bbPress 0.9.0.2. Maybe it’s a specific issue of 1.0?