Re: [sqlite] philosophy behind public domain?

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