> You're exposed to claims if you use someone else's code without permission. But if you simply fail to specify a licence for your own code you do not incur any

> You're exposed to claims if you use someone else's code without permission. But if you simply fail to specify a licence for your own code you do not incur any risk. I think they were thinking that if you open sourced your code, you were accepting patches and bug fixes. If your licensing didn't automatically extend to those patches, the patch owner would retain all rights to that section of your code.