On 28 Jun 2012 at 14:58, Simon Slavin <[email protected]> wrote: > On 28 Jun 2012, at 11:53am, Peter Volkis <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Occasionally I bump into some proprietary software that's using SQLite behind >> the curtain and I wonder if they have bought a license. I know SQLite is >> public domain and it is not required to buy a license while using it for >> commercial purposes. I wonder about it just out of straight curiousity, but >> software companies are very often not happy to answer this question and it >> gets neglected. Certain companies even consider this question very offensive. >> Is there a public list of all companies that have bought an SQLite license or >> this information is considered private and is not openly disclosed? Being >> able to see which companies "play nice" would help deciding if it's worth >> using their software. > > License details are here: > > <http://www.sqlite.org/copyright.html> > > tl;dr version: no license is required or even requested. You can buy one if > some part of your organisation requires it for legal purposes. > > There's a list of well-known users here: > > <http://www.sqlite.org/famous.html>
Presumably the fact that a company figures on this list tells us nothing about whether or not that company purchased a licence. And I am puzzled as to why the OP thinks that such a purchase means that the company is "playing nice". The copyright.html page lists why a company might think it *has* to buy a licence, but that tells him nothing about the company anyway. -- Cheers -- Tim
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