[otachack]

After reading SQLite's page on their public domain approach they seem to go through great lengths to make sure it stays public domain.

https://sqlite.org/copyright.html

Including having their closed contributors sign affidavits and stored in a physical location. This may be what OP is referring to.

Compare that with an MIT license with no "hardening" like affidavits so that it's easy to mutate to another license type, I can see their point.

Interesting stuff since I never knew this "public domain" approach before!

[easton]

Their license text has always been my favorite (well, perhaps except for the original JSON license):

* The author disclaims copyright to this source code. In place of a legal notice, here is a blessing:

* May you do good and not evil.

* May you find forgiveness for yourself and forgive others.

* May you share freely, never taking more than you give.

edit: thanks for the correction about the jquery license.

[ZeroClickOk]

do you have the link for the original JSON license? It looks remains only "The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil."

[easton]

That's what I was talking about. Crawford said in a talk he had to make an amended licenses for corporations (namely, IBM), who had lawyers that needed to be able to get around the evil restriction.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hCimLnIsDA

[adzm]

What is the original JQuery license?

[dangoor]

Likely referring to the [JSON license](https://www.json.org/license.html) and not the jQuery license. The JSON license has this problematic (for many businesses) phrase: The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil.