On the Internet, by default — that means without doing anything — any computer can talk to any computer. When somebody has a better idea, they don’t have to ask anybody’s permission. They can just make it happen on their computer. When a nearby computer sees it and wants to adopt the same protocol, again, they don’t have to ask for anybody’s permission.
This is what we call anarchy — this is the fundamental virtue of the Internet, what the Internet people called the “Internet Invariants”, meaning that this property does not change. So it’s not that I did something extra to share my work.
It’s just that I did not do anything to prevent other people from using my work. It’s just me promising: I will not waste my time suing you in the court. This is all I said.