Keeping your work safe
It is a sad fact that with the spread of the internet – as more and more people get access to it – the number of incidents of plagiarism – that is, the stealing of someone else’s work, work for word, code for code, and passing it on as his or hers – have increased. So it follows, that in order for you to safeguard your work, you need to license it.
Thankfully, there are ways to license your work online. These licenses are recognized under a court of law, and should you wish to enforce them, you may do so. One is to though the Open Source Initiative, which provide different licenses specifically designed for software and code. The same goes for the Free Software Foundation, which also provides licenses for code and software.