> For a (any) licence to take legal effect, the work has to be legally owned
by some entity, i.e. copyrighted, AFAIK.
Exactly. There is no such thing as anonymous copyright holder or licensor.
You can't go to court and say "I am the completely anonymous person of that
forum post and because I added a sentence mentioning my favorite license, I
am here to sue another anonymous person X for violating the license". This is
sheer nonsense and yet another attempt to renew someone's favorite discussion
about 4 freedoms and all the rest of it. I refuse to participate in that.
> kindly requesting that the work to be used in accordance with GPL.
Licensing forum posts is not kindness but a signal that someone should
seriously visit a doctor.
The GitHub repo I opened will use "The Unlicense" which means no copyright
and restrictions/regulations. I will never accept anything from anyone who
tells me "I can potentially help" and then imposes regulations on that "help"
(however 'ethical' anyone may consider that).
