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U can't believe I didn't know this!

I got curious on how they solved contributions since "public domain" means different things in different jurisdictions[0] - unlike copyright. It turns out they didn't solve it - there's a subsection on the SQLite that declares it is "Open Source, nor Open Contribution[1]". Much like Android, this follows the letter of Open Source, but not the spirit of it.

I'll stand by my earlier assertion; wrangling public domain AI contributions is an even gnarlier problem to solve.

0. Indeed, it may even be non-existent. Maintainers would want to protect the project from being "infected" by contributions with permaglued-copyright.

1. https://www.sqlite.org/copyright.html

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