I noticed that some repositories hosted by the user/organisation "FGMEMBERS-NONGPL" contain the following or similar notices concerning license:
(from https://github.com/FGMEMBERS-NONGPL/X-02)The original author has not declared a license for this software
FGMEMBERS-RESTRICTED repository will maintain a non-commercial license until the copyright owner declares intention
(Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA applies)
So as far as my intellect goes, this means that the author published his work, usually in a zip, without adding a note about licensing (which equals to fully copyright protected, as no additional rights are granted). Following this, someone, presumably Jabberwocky or IAHM-COL (?) decided that they have the right to license someone elses work under a license they picked, in this case CC BY-NC-SA which obviously grants more rights than fully copyright-protected i.e. no license granted. How does this work? How can you *choose* to license someone elses content?