Public domain is ambiguous in some countries: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/219742/open-source-why-not-release-into-public-domain http://stackoverflow.com/

Public domain is ambiguous in some countries: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/219742/open-source-why-not-release-into-public-domain http://stackoverflow.com/questions/219742/open-source-why-no... There are ways to work around this such as what SQLite does (public domain + explicit license to anyone who asks): http://www.sqlite.org/copyright.html http://www.sqlite.org/copyright.html and CC0: http://creativecommons.org/choose/zero/ http://creativecommons.org/choose/zero/