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Yes, but on its license page (http://sqlite.org/copyright.html http://sqlite.org/copyright.html), it has a section for how to obtain a different license for peo
by silentbicycle 17y ago
Yes, but on its license page (http://sqlite.org/copyright.html http://sqlite.org/copyright.html), it has a section for how to obtain a different license for people "are using SQLite in a jurisdiction that does not recognize the right of an author to dedicate their work to the public domain" (among other things).
Also, I've commented elsewhere in thread (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=783320 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=783320) about problems releasing it into the public domain has caused him.
- pyre 17y agoI didn't know that, but that's exactly the reason that I pointed in the direction of SQLite. I knew it was 'in the public domain', and that their 'full license' would probably have some sort of solution to issues like this. Obviously this issue is complex enough that they have a page devoted to it.
- silentbicycle 17y agoRight. Specifically, it's the intersection of a public domain license and a program that gets a lot of commercial use (esp. embedded in devices). I know of some other public domain programs (off the top of my head: several of lhf's libraries for Lua), but nothing else that has had the license carefully scrutinized for commercial use.