[Cryptography] What is going on with TrueCrypt?

[Nemo]

(I am not a lawyer, so what follows is based on my non-expert
understanding.)

What would happen if someone just cut&pasted the TrueCrypt source
wholesale and put his/her own name, copyright, and license on it?

The only ones with legal standing to sue for infringement are the
authors, who are anonymous. They (he?) would have to give up that
anonymity just to initiate legal action. Not to mention engaging a bunch
of lawyers for a settlement worth zero.

Then there is the little detail that even the GPL has only ever been
deemed enforceable by a couple of German courts... What would they make
of some poorly-phrased non-expert trash license, I wonder?

Would hijacking the TrueCrypt source like this be unethical?
Perhaps. But I would still love to see someone give it a whirl.

 - Nemo
   https://self-evident.org/