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The source code for SQLite is in the public domain. No claim of
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copyright is made on any part of the core source code. (The
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documentation and test code is a different matter - some sections of
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documentation and test logic are governed by open-source licenses.)
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All contributors to the SQLite core software have signed affidavits
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specifically disavowing any copyright interest in the code. This means
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that anybody is able to legally do anything they want with the SQLite
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source code.
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There are other SQL database engines with liberal licenses that allow
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the code to be broadly and freely used. But those other engines are
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still governed by copyright law. SQLite is different in that copyright
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law simply does not apply.
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The source code files for other SQL database engines typically begin
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with a comment describing your legal rights to view and copy that
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file. The SQLite source code contains no license since it is not
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governed by copyright. Instead of a license, the SQLite source code
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offers a blessing:
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May you do good and not evil
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May you find forgiveness for yourself and forgive others
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May you share freely, never taking more than you give.
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