At 1:39 PM -0400 5/25/05, Chad Whitacre wrote:
I am interested in the reasoning behind SQLite's dedication to the
public domain vis-a-vis other copyright/licensing options (GPL, BSD,
etc.) Is there any documentation available on this decision?
I'm trying to form an opinion on software copyright/licensing issues and
would appreciate any thoughts or leads. Thanks.
I'm wondering the same thing.
Moreover, in a discussion about open source software licenses I was
part of a few weeks ago, it was brought up that making a work public
domain was a very bad thing to do, because it opened up the author to
a whole bunch of legal liability that they had no recourse from,
which they wouldn't have if they retained their copyright but used a
permissive license. I think the gist was that the software couldn't
have a disclaimer of liability if it is public domain, and so anyone
could sue the author if something went wrong when using it. I don't
know how true this is or not, but would like to see it addressed in
the answer.
-- Darren Duncan
