[Javascript] code licencing

Scott Reynen scott at randomchaos.com
Sun May 8 20:59:14 CDT 2011


On 5/8/11 7:27 PM, Troy III Ajnej wrote:
> Eventually there might come a day when someone
> at knowledge that your code is not licensed and
> seeing that it is gaining avid popularity, might
> just get the idea to commercially license your
> code on his name and put an end to its free
> use.

I'm not a lawyer, but my understanding is you can't license code you 
don't own, and ownership falls by default to the person who wrote the 
code, making this hypothetical scenario impossible.

-- 
Scott


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