On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, John Cowan wrote: > Alex Rousskov scripsit: > > > So far, it looks like to safely place something in public domain, one > > should not claim a priori ownership/authorship but simply anonymously > > release the thing into the wild. SourceForge, CreativeCommons, or > > somebody should offer such a service. > > Anonymous code is too dangerous: the true author, or his heirs, might > come back to bite you some day. People who are reusing code need > to know the author and to know what the license is.
The above works only for those users who believe the [legal] system is too screwed to rely upon or be afraid of, of course. Others should play the game (use licensed code and set up a legal defense fund). I am not advocating either belief system here. Alex. -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3