Since the dawn of the computer age people don't understand the meaning of PUBLIC DOMAIN.
Especially things like "This software is in the Public Domain. (C) by Author" are always good for a laugh. (I must admit that I made this mistake myself when I was a very young teenager and didn't know the legal difference between Freeware and Public Domain software and wanted to give away one of my early text adventures for free - but not in the public domain. Not being an English native speaker and years before I even began learning something about the law, back then I thought this was one and the same thing.)
Anyway. Following some people's logic, I think D. Richard Hipp should sue Apple for using SQLite in Core Data and Aperture, Adobe for using it in Lightroom and the entire rest of the world that knowingly or unknowingly uses SQLite in one way or the other. After all, Richard Hipp wrote this baby and put it in the Public Domain...
Especially things like "This software is in the Public Domain. (C) by Author" are always good for a laugh. (I must admit that I made this mistake myself when I was a very young teenager and didn't know the legal difference between Freeware and Public Domain software and wanted to give away one of my early text adventures for free - but not in the public domain. Not being an English native speaker and years before I even began learning something about the law, back then I thought this was one and the same thing.)
Anyway. Following some people's logic, I think D. Richard Hipp should sue Apple for using SQLite in Core Data and Aperture, Adobe for using it in Lightroom and the entire rest of the world that knowingly or unknowingly uses SQLite in one way or the other. After all, Richard Hipp wrote this baby and put it in the Public Domain...