Richard,
Thanks for the reply.
GPL and LGPL are too restrictive for SQLite because applications
generally want to be able to statically link against SQLite without
inheriting the GPL license requirements. BSD retains copyright in
technicality, but doesn't really retain any real rights - so what's
the point? Public domain just seemed the easiest way to go.
So it sounds like the PD decision was mostly path-of-least-resistance,
given the use case. Fair enough. Has this worked out well for SQLite?
Would you recommend dedications to the public domain?
http://www.creativecommons.org/
I'm not sure I would call them an "advocate" for the public domain,
although they provide for dedications to it. I see them advocating for
everything in between (pd) and (c).
I'm sure you can find more on Google.
Ok, then I'm either searching wrong or there's nothing to find. :-)
I guess I'm casting about for a public domain equivalent of the FSF, so
the latter is probably the case.
http://freshmeat.net/browse/197/ lists 521 software projects that claim
to be "public domain" ...
Helpful pointers, thanks.
chad
