Freeing my code... need some guidance

[David Woolley]

Matthew Flaschen wrote:

> will help maintain the code, while the company can still do what they
> like with it (which includes potentially not mentioning their name).

Unless they assign copyright (change ownership), many licenses, 
including the GPL, would require them to reveal their name.  The GPL 
requires a valid copyright notice, and a valid copyright notice requires 
the identity of the copyright owner to be provided.

Also, anyone who is worth suing and wants to  make use of free software, 
ought to avoid software for which it is not possible to identify the 
copyright owner, as there is no way of verifying that a valid licence 
has actually been given.


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