Even before this, SQLite was already famous for having a blessing in place of a legal notice in its LICENSE file (which I really like and have adopted for my pu

Even before this, SQLite was already famous for having a blessing in place of a legal notice in its LICENSE file (which I really like and have adopted for my public domain works): May you do good and not evil. May you find forgiveness for yourself and forgive others. May you share freely, never taking more than you give. The Code of Ethics can be thought as its natural extension, not merely a knee-jerk reaction to various Codes of Conduct.