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This is public domain, which is very generous, but apparently problematic. E.g. see comments here https://www.red-gate.com/simple-talk/opinion/geek-of-the-wee...:

"If I had known as much about copyright in 2001 as I know now, I probably would have gone with something like the Apache license. Live and learn…"

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It's really only problematic if you want businesses to use it. They don't just want the right to use it, they want to be given permission explicitly. One reason is that public domain is not recognized everywhere. It's unlikely a static site generator needs to worry about being public domain.

I wonder how do businesses make do with SQLite's public domain license. I see it used everywhere.

They can buy an alternative licensed version from Richard Hipp if they're worried about it.

They put the interview in a table? Ewww. :(

Tables are good for tabular data. I'd argue that it's potentially arguable that this may actually be tabular data. Either way, now that you mentioned it, I don't know whether my knee-jerk reaction would have been that it's good or bad, or if I'd even notice it at all, heh.

It's pretty hard to argue a chat transcript as tabular data.

    <dialog>
      <dt>Sam</dt>
      <dd>Knock, Knock.</dd>
      <dt>Eric</dt>
      <dd>Who's there?</dd>
      <dt>Sam</dt>
      <dd>Justin.</dd>
      <dt>Eric</dt>
      <dd>Justin who?</dd>
      <dt>Sam</dt>
      <dd>Justin time for dinner!</dd>
    </dialog>

http://html5doctor.com/a-little-more-conversation-with-dialo...

Huh, according to https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/di... , the <dialog> element represents a dialog box or other interactive component, such as an inspector or window.

You'll want to use a <dl> tag for that in html5, I suppose.

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