For Approval: Anonymous Hero Public License

Russ Nelson nelson at crynwr.com
Wed Feb 13 19:56:39 UTC 2008


Wilson, Andrew writes:
 > Julien Cayzac wrote:
 > > This license is meant for publishing source code in a way that allows
 > > anybody to modify, re-license, or build upon, the licensed work but
 > > explicitly forbids to cite its original author.

 > May I suggest a better approach would be to set up a non-profit
 > organization ("anonymous-heros.org") which could accept assignment
 > of copyright from publicity-averse would-be open source authors.

This is another case where the contributor license is more important
than the user license.

http://opensource.org/node/243

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