[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 04:14:17PM -0800, David Brown wrote:
SQLite is intended to be Public Domain
<http://www.sqlite.org/copyright.html>.
They never mentiond it is nonrevocable and forever. Don't know
why this isn't mentioned clearly.
They mention that all contributed code must include:
"The author or authors of this code dedicate any and all copyright
interest in this code to the public domain. We make this dedication for
the benefit of the public at large and to the detriment of our heirs and
successors. We intend this dedication to be an overt act of
relinquishment in perpetuity of all present and future rights to this
code under copyright law."
The "relinquishment in perpetuity" part sounds pretty clear to me, but
then I'm not a lawyer ;-)
You'll notice they sell licenses for jurisdictions that don't recognize public
domain. IIRC France and Germany don't recognize public domain.
But it seems like the U.S. does, as illustrated by the ability to donate
public domain software as a gift to the library of congress.
David Looney
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