On May 15, 2016 6:30 AM, "Tim Streater" <tim at clothears.org.uk> wrote: > > What's all this about licences. AIUI, SQLite is explicitly in the public domain. Meaning the question of licence doesn't arise.
The question of license arises when comparing two pieces of software. While PD isn't a license per se, it is license-esque, is the absolutely least restrictive license possible (or at least that I can imagine), and is (should be) easy to understand. It makes it easy to evaluate as long as you are in a jurisdiction that recognizes PD and aren't dealing with nervous lawyers. A very complex license could be written that was conceptually equivalent to PD. If so, PD would be the superior license from a comprehensibility POV.
