Richard Hipp actually said that he wished he hadn't released SQLite into the public domain. Apparently it becomes a headache when the code is used in countries

Richard Hipp actually said that he wished he hadn't released SQLite into the public domain. Apparently it becomes a headache when the code is used in countries that don't have the same implementation of the public domain as the US (around 16 minutes in: http://www.viddler.com/explore/rentzsch/videos/25/ http://www.viddler.com/explore/rentzsch/videos/25/ ). I think that if you want to appease legal departments, your best bet is a well known licence, written by lawyers (eg Apache 2.0).