I use SQLite for sharing structured open data - it's a better alternative to zipped csv datasets, for example. See the football.db [1] as some example SQLite datasets e.g. the English Premier League in england.db and so on.
[1]: https://github.com/openfootball/england/releases
PS: The big elephant for SQLite data packages is Simon Willison's Datasette [2]. [2]: https://datasette.io