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Don't overthink it:

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

The quote explicitly "disclaims copyright" and includes the blessing "in place of a legal notice". It would be truly absurd even for a lawyer to believe that the blessing constitutes a copyright license anyway.

See this 3 minute presentation fragment about the "Do not use JSLint for Evil" license clause: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hCimLnIsDA

It's so idiotic. Who of those who do evil in my view, do agree that what they are doing is evil?

> That's how we interpret it.

No. That follows from the fact that the author gives up copyright. No copyright -> no license terms.