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Re:Etherpad includes banned (on Google code) software JSMin by alextgordon on Saturday December 19, 2009 @10:37AM (#1004822)
Richard Hipp actually said that he wished he hadn't released SQLite into the public domain. Apparently it becomes a headache when the code is used in countries that don't have the same implementation of the public domain as the US (around 16 minutes in: http://www.viddler.com/explore/rentzsch/videos/25/ ).

I think that if you want to appease legal departments, your best bet is a well known licence, written by lawyers (eg Apache 2.0).

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Re:Etherpad includes banned (on Google code) software JSMin by blasdel on Saturday December 19, 2009 @08:28PM (#1005541)
Yes, Moral Rights are even more of a pain in the ass than the AGPL could ever hope to be.
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