My original code had no license because it's in the public domain.

Well it's more than that: you can do whatever you want with it,
including slapping any license you want on it, redistributing
it or claiming you wrote it.

I'll let anonymous speak for himself.

Adam

On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 07:35:37PM +0000, Ben Laurie wrote:
>
> Amusing. Since this was posted without licence or copyright, I believe
> that the default position is that it is copyright the author, with no
> licence to copy. The author is, of course, unidentifiable, since it was
> posted via an anonymous remailer. I don't know what effect that has on
> the legal status (but, I suspect, none).
>
> Given that it was based on Adam Back's code, and no licence or copyright
> notice was displayed for that, it may in itself be in breach of
> copyright/licence (but I have no idea what the status of the original
> source was).
>
> I'm copying UKCrypto in case some of the legal minds there have an
> opinion on the UK position (or, indeed, in case I'm completely wrong).
>
>

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