On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 9:37 AM, Jan Nijtmans <jan.nijtm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2014-08-12 15:27 GMT+02:00 Richard Hipp <d...@sqlite.org>: > > > But we cannot use Jan's changes directly because he lives in a > jurisdiction > > that does not recognize the ability of an author to contribute their work > > into the public domain. We can only use Jan's changes as a guideline for > > implementing our own changes. > > > > At least that's what the famous Lawyer Lawrence Rosen believes. > > For another opinion, see: > <http://cr.yp.to/publicdomain.html> > > Unfortunately, I'm not a lawyer :-( > Right. Opinions vary. Pending clarification of the issue and in view of the huge number of users that might be impacted if the issue gets resolved the wrong way, I think it is better to play it safe and not accept patches from people in non-British-common-law countries for the time being. -- D. Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
