On 2010-06-21, Arne Vajh?j<arne@vajhoej.dk> wrote:
FireFox and Thunderbird uses SQLite.
The authors of SQLite has released it as public domain.
If such a release is not valid in Norway, then all users
of FF and TB in Norway are breaking copyright.
Even though the copyright holders have claimed the work to be in the
public domain I doubt it actually /is/ because there is no provision
in the law for that particular option. Of course, if SQLite is itself
from a nation other than Norway then things can become complicated and
it will be difficult to tell.
In practical terms I expect that this will be considered by the courts
to be a maximally permissive license, which still leaves a few aspects
of copyright in place - and is different from public domain.