Can OSI specify that public domain is open source?

[Tom Callaway]

On 09/07/2011 03:35 PM, Karl Fogel wrote:
> What about SQLite?  It appears to function like an OSS project, and
> meets the OSD as far as I can tell...

Whenever I'm asked about SQLite, I tell them that they're setting a very
bad example by choosing to not have licensing terms for their work, and
that if there was ever a concern related to the massive cluster-fsck
that is PD, we'd be forced to fork it by adding copyrightable changes to
it and applying a proper FOSS license to it.

IMHO, we do not want to encourage more projects to behave like SQLite.

~tom

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