This could be related to the fact that soundcloud is an european company and none of the legislation in Europe actually provides a means for donating works to t

This could be related to the fact that soundcloud is an european company and none of the legislation in Europe actually provides a means for donating works to the public domain (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain#Dedicating_works_to_the_public_domain http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain#Dedicating_works_...) I remember the creator of SQLite talking about this on a very old episode of the FLOSSWeekly podcast where he said that this was somewhat hindering adoption because in Europe the legal status of SQLite wasn't clear.