and that is the point, craig has a certificate naming him as the creator of a whitepaper of 2008 and a first edition version of the software in january 2009. the MIT licence was added later (someone else pointed out in another similar topic)
thus craig although a known scam artist. doesnt need to prove anything outside of court. but can for just cheap filing fee's now cause mischief by suing MIT or sourceforge or anything, using the certificate as his foot in the door... and then leave the door
open for the people he tries to sue to defend or settle.

its how scammers scam. they dont care about having real evidence to win a case in law. they just care to force others to waste time. money defending. in the hopes they dont defend. thus win by default. or they settle for low % of defense cost to just pay him to go away.

after all look what he done in the past. he managed to scam the aussie tax office for millions using only a text file of PUBLIC keys. you would be surprised what could be done with a certificate that has your name on it saying you created a whitepaper and first edition of software. that has been notorised by a government.