Why?

[Alex Rousskov]

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.
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